On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:55:16 EST, Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> As great as XEmacs is (I use FSF Emacs, but...), it would make a poor
> standard text widget.
>
> Think about all the issues involved in making XEmacs look like a
> standard text widget to those who don't know emacs...
>
> - Is cut and paste consistent with user interface standards?
> - What do you do in the cases where standard emacs keybindings conflict
> with the keybindings users expect (C-x / C-c / C-v to start with)
> - How does it handle line wrapping
> - What happens if you switch buffers inside the text widget?
There is already code in XEmacs to support being an embedded widget, though
I've not tested it, nor can I remember offhand when it was last known working.
Another big concern is launch time and memory footprint - do you
*REALLY* want a text widget that has a 8M binary, and startup times to
match? If you're looking into supporting this, finding a way to embed
'gnuclient' to connect to an already-running Emacs or XEmacs would be
a *hell* of a lot faster...
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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