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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDevelop v.0.2
From:       Pietro Iglio <iglio () fub ! it>
Date:       1998-12-04 14:32:33
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At 14.53 04/12/98 +0200, you wrote:
>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.

I think that a good starting point is at:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/external-widget/external-widget_toc.html

("Using emacs as a widget in other programs")

You can reach this link from www.xemacs.org.

-- Pietro Iglio

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