Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[Chong Yidong]

"Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:

> Has any progress been made in this area?
>
> It seems that given the existence of Emacs support for Xembed and the
> existence of Firefox support for XEmbed'd plugins (e.g. [1]) most of the
> hard work for integrating Emacs into a web-browser has already been
> accomplished.
>
> Is there some reason that putting these pieces together is more
> difficult than it appear on the surface?

Starting with DiamondX example plugin, it is straightforward to embed
Emacs (directly or via emacsclient) into Firefox.  But to get Firefox to
change browser text areas into XEmbedded Emacs windows, some more
Firefox extension code is needed; I don't know how big a job this is.