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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Remembering: Thoughts on PlannerMode as an orga


From: Andrew Korty
Subject: Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Remembering: Thoughts on PlannerMode as an organizer
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:21:28 -0500
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Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

> better text processing
>
>    Continuing the above, better text-handling would be good in
>    general.  Just as an example, it would be cool to be able to
>    search for a given string across every open window.  Again, this
>    would presumably require some code in xfree86.  Maybe the feature
>    already exists?  This might be more of a StumpWM feature request
>    than a ratpoison feature request.  Or maybe it is an Emacs
>    feature request.  The idea, taken to its extreme, is that the
>    user should, in some sense, never really have to leave Emacs at
>    all (i.e. even when running a program like lynx or Mozilla).

I was told years ago that this sort of feature would be made possible
by component architectures like .NET or Bonobo.  You have an Emacs
component abstracted as a generic editing component.  Applications
just use the editing object, and then you have Emacs running in every
little text box (probably one Emacs instance being used for all
editing fields).  Vim users would choose to use a Vim component as
their editing component.

I don't know much about this model, so my ignorance is really showing
here, but maybe someone who is more familiar with the GNOME object
model can speak up.

- -- 
Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer, GCIA, GCFA
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
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