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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDevelop v.0.2
From:       "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date:       1998-12-04 12:53:04
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Frugal wrote:
> This would be fine if you then had a good way of communicating with the
> application in the sub window. It is all very well having a copy of your
> favourite editor running in the window, but if you can't tell it to jump
> to a particular point in a file or even open a file than it is worse
> than useless. If you can tell the editor what to do then you still need
> a common interface to do this.
> 
> Does anyone know how to tell a currently running copy of emacs, vi,
> kedit, kwrite, nedit, etc. how to open a file, move around in a file,
> highlight text, insert text, save files etc. all with a single
> interface, all guaranteed to work the same way.
The Sun Workshop knows how to communicate with XEmacs and Vi (it has an odd
graphical vi), and does all the stuff you mentioned. I have no idea how it
does it, though.


Regards,
Yannai.

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