Re: Motif support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:58:29 +0100
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> In a way a repl is kind of similar to a game loop in that it reads input 
> (read),
> update the world (eval) and render the world (print). The other similarity is
> that Emacs is also controlling it's loop rather than fitting into some
> frameworks loop such as Gtk, or some other toolkits framework. You rather use
> those as a library of functionality to draw things when they suit Emacs, while
> desktop applications would usually fit into a framework and let toolkit do the
> update and drawing when it needs to be done. GUI toolkits like Gtk are usually
> "don't call us, we call you", while games, and I perecive Emacs, are rather, 
> "do
> this for me when I ask you".

That difference is largely irrelevant in the context of this
particular discussion, since we are specifically talking about drawing
stuff, not about the framework or the main loop.