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Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:01:09 +0000

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 25-Nov-2008, John Swensen wrote:
>
> | You can definitely use any editor you want, and if there was some way
> | to put emacs into the IDE I would do it, but that just simply isn't
> | possible.
>
> In the NEWS file from the current Emacs development sources, I see:
>
>  * Changes in Emacs 23.1
>
>  ** Improved X Window System support
>
>  [...]
>
>  *** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
>  You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line
>  option --parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See
>  http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
>  for details about XEmbed.
>
>  [...]
>
> Would that be sufficient to allow you to embed Emacs in a gtk
> application?

You already know my opinion about this. While Windows support is not
a target or a focus, I still think you should "consider" them when making
architecture decision. Whether you like or not, Windows is the most
widely used OS around the world. If you want to increase your user base,
considering Windows as a possible platform is a win-win kind of thing.

Using a X11 solution for building an IDE for octave would de facto rule
out Windows (non-cygwin) as supported platform. I know you don't care
and I respect your opinion. But I personally think there are maybe better
trade-offs.

Michael.


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