Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[joakim]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

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

Yes, its the patch I mention below. However, as far as I can
determine, the patch implements the case of embedding emacs in other
applications, not the case of embedding other applications in
emacs. Am I wrong?

>
>       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?
>>
>>

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Joakim Verona