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Re: Why bring new features to Emacs and not Emacs to new applications?
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Why bring new features to Emacs and not Emacs to new applications? |
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Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:20:48 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> - incompatible control structure.
>>>
>>> While most applications will have like emacs a main event loop, it is
>>> not designed usually to go thru (dynamically modifiable) keymaps to
>>> handle in a uniform way the events, but would rather rely on
>>> frameworks, which may implement their own modal control loops.
>>
>> Isn't this an area where Emacs must change?
>
> On the contrary, this is the essence of what an emacs is.
I think we are misunderstanding each other. There are all sort of
events that must be handled. Isn't there loops inside the keyboard
handling now? (Or, do I misremember?)