Re: GUI design

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/29/2012 01:35 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> That makes the debugging feature a bit tricky.  If an outside editor is
> used, the debugger window should probably be disabled from modifying
> code, simply reload the file and show stepping information every time
> the code is re-run.
>
> Or are you saying that Emacs is a good candidate for interacting with a
> debugger because there is some way to direct escape commands to it?

Emacs is really a full-blown LISP environment that happens to have a 
screen-oriented text editing commands built in. The escape commands just 
call underlying Emacs LISP functions, and you can call them via various 
RPC-like mechanisms as well.