Hi Simon, On +2020-09-28 10:56:55 +0200, zimoun wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 12:54, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> wrote: > > > Just tested, EXWM works with emacs-no-x-toolkit! > > Cool! > > > > So I suggest we add the following packages: > > > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > (define-public emacs-no-x-toolkit-xelb > > (package > > (inherit emacs-xelb) > > (name "emacs-no-x-toolkit-xelb") > > [...] > > > (define-public emacs-no-x-toolkit-exwm > > (package > > (inherit emacs-exwm) > > (name "emacs-no-x-toolkit-exwm") > > It appears to me more logical to name it: emacs-xelb-no-x-toolkit; > appending the variation last. > > > All the best, > simon >
I am wondering if there is a pure-wayland-client version of emacs, as discussed here[1] A debian emacs-nox appears to exist [2] On my system, apt show emacs-nox tells me --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Description: GNU Emacs editor (without GUI support) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs compiled without support for X, and provides only a text terminal interface. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- IIUC, wayland gets input events like keystrokes from the kernel and sends them by registered call-backs to the programs that thus registered interest. But I wonder how this connects with emacs and its use of pts/ptmx, readline, etc ... Is there a legacy layer of vt encoding/decoding that could be eliminated by a more direct use of wayland protocol? Perhaps such an emacs package could have a smaller closure, by depending as simply as possible on wayland (sans Xwayland)? If the low level stuff were wrapped nicely in some guile extension modules, I suspect other uses than emacs would be found. [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48561/is-there-an-x11-free-build-of-emacs-that-can-run-on-wayland-not-going-through-x [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/emacs-nox -- Regards, Bengt Richter
