Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Chong Yidong writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > Lennart Borgman writes:
 > >
 > >  > I think we are in a hurry. The Vim developers are also working on
 > >  > xembed. We must of course be first ;-)
 > >
 > > Forget being first.  XEmacs has had it since 1998 at the latest.
 > >
 > > Concentrate on being best, instead.
 > 
 > The "it" under discussion is a Firefox extension to replace text boxes
 > with embedded Emacs frames.  Since Firefox has only been around since
 > 2003, I strongly suspect that XEmacs has not had "it" since "1998 at the
 > latest".

Not you too!  Why do you care?

Please, just do your users a favor.  Don't try to be first, try to be
*good*, OK?  This stuff is not easy, and tends to bitrot *really* fast
because the communications protocol depends on both sides.  That's why
XEmacs doesn't have a practical application (publicly available) IMO.
Don't make the mistake of putting something hackish in, and putting
off the developers who'd like to use it.