Re: [gtk-list] Re: A Super Text Widget Thingy

[Valdis Kletnieks vt edu]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:55:16 EST, Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>  said:
> As great as XEmacs is (I use FSF Emacs, but...), it would make a poor
> standard text widget.
> 
> Think about all the issues involved in making XEmacs look like a 
> standard text widget to those who don't know emacs...
> 
>  - Is cut and paste consistent with user interface standards?
>  - What do you do in the cases where standard emacs keybindings conflict
>    with the keybindings users expect (C-x / C-c / C-v to start with)
>  - How does it handle line wrapping
>  - What happens if you switch buffers inside the text widget?

There is already code in XEmacs to support being an embedded widget, though
I've not tested it, nor can I remember offhand when it was last known working.

Another big concern is launch time and memory footprint - do you
*REALLY* want a text widget that has a 8M binary, and startup times to
match?  If you're looking into supporting this, finding a way to embed
'gnuclient' to connect to an already-running Emacs or XEmacs would be
a *hell* of a lot faster...


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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech

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