Re: porting GNU Emacs to kde (?)

[mr mike]

> Gnome also comes with gtksourceview widget which is used by stuff like
> gedit (a [not so] simple text-editor provided by Gnome).  If someone
> would take a closer look at it, it would probably be nice if they
> could create an Emacs-widget which would be mostly (source-code)
> compatible with it.
> 
> Emacs Bonobo component, OTOH, would allow Emacs to be embedded even
> in programs like Mozilla (look for mozilla-bonobo project), and many
> other Bonobo-aware 'containers' (Nautilus comes to mind).  Those are
> the advantages of having Bonobo components.
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 

If emacs had a way to start it unmapped like xemacs, this probably would
not be hard at all.  if emacs was not already up, we could fork it in
the background and then use gnuserv to send it a create-frame call with
a GtkSocket id to draw to.

there was a gnomacs project a couple of years ago that showed something
like this.  the only problem is that it required an already running
emacs to create the frame.

i've looked into the source of gnomacs some on and off and i've also
looked a the gtk emacs port some to see how hard it would be.  actually
embedding the frame does not look hard at all.

native d-bus support for evaluating lisp commands would make
communicating with the running emacs process much easier.

mike