Re: Emacs port to Eclipse

[Thomas L Roche]

Sarir Khamsi Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:25:29 -0700
>>> Is there anyone working on a port of GNU Emacs to the Eclipse
>>> framework? 

Tom Roche 02/23/2004 09:22:10 AM:
>> "Port" isn't the term I would use: what would probably be needed is a
>> wrapper.

or "wanted"

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>>> If not, has anyone looked at how they could work together?

>> Not particularly, but 2 things come to mind:

>> * Eclipse can run any COM object in a page (== <view|editor>), so a
>>   COM wrapper would work

>> * There is a vi plugin

>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/viplugin/

>>   so one might look at how they do what they do.

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
> I'm afraid it might be a lot of work to reimplement Emacs...

Really ?-) My point was, look at how to wrap emacs so as to allow it
to interact with eclipse, NOT reimplement emacs. (Which sounds like a
job for another lifetime :-)