Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[Jan Djärv]

There already exist a patch for this from Timo Savola.  It has not been 
installed yet, but will be once unicode2 becomes HEAD.

        Jan D.


address@hidden skrev:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in the possibility of using xembed in emacs:
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html
>
> There are patches to make emacs embaddable in other applications:
>
> http://timo.stc.cx/tmp/emacs/
>
> which seems nice and worthwile of inclusion in emacs, but I'm in this
> case talking about embedding other applications in emacs.
>
> I'm thinking of doing a proof-of-concept hack that would implement a
> new dummy image type. The image would simply not render. Instead it
> would read a window id from a file and call XReparentWindow, with the
> coordinates given by emacs to the image. This scheme might work
> somewhat, but:
>
> How can this be achieved properly in emacs?