Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[Jan Djärv]

Tassilo Horn skrev 2010-04-27 18.00:

> But this --parent-id option is only available to emacs, not emacsclient.
> Is that intended or technically not feasible otherwise?  My emacs needs
> about 20 seconds to start, but I always have a server instance in the
> background.  Clearly, I wouldn't want to wait 20 secs to start editing
> some textfield, but simply embed a new frame...

It should be possible to pass it along to  an emacs daemon.  Parent id is just 
another frame parameter, that --parent-id sets in initial-frame-alist.
Nobody saw the need, or did the code yet, thats all.

> The --parent-id option isn't documented in the texinfo docs, btw...

There are some out of date documentation, but its within an @ignore:

@ignore
@item parent-id
@c ??? Not yet working.
The X window number of the window that should be the parent of this one.
Specifying this lets you create an Emacs window inside some other
application's window.  (It is not certain this will be implemented; try
it and see if it works.)
@end ignore


> And the other thing: Is there some example code showing how I can embed
> emacs in my own application?

I have some Gtk+ examples, it is easy there.  But maybe you want straight X 
examples?

        Jan D.