Re: Emacs plugin system & Gecko embedding

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     A browser inside Emacs: do you agree that this would only make sense  
>     if all text editing was governed by Emacs, i.e. each text area was  
>     handled by Emacs directly as a buffer?
>     (Is that doable with the new Gecko library?)
>
> I agree.  If it is a matter only of having a browser display inside
> the Emacs frame, we might as well do so by fork/exec'ing the other
> program and telling it to display on part of the Emacs frame.

I think that even without text editing it might be useful when editing 
web pages. The browser inside Emacs could perhaps be updated with an 
idle timer in a more controlled way than an external browser.