From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Denton Subject: xwidgets Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:31:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="658601964-597632021-1474385491=:26308" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmN1H-0000uy-A9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:31:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmN1D-0000TT-AQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:31:39 -0400 Received: from shell.miskatonic.org ([65.39.236.119]:58866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmN1D-0000T7-6S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:31:35 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.miskatonic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED027FA0EC4 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:31:31 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --658601964-597632021-1474385491=:26308 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Emacs 25.1 supports xwidgets, which Mickey Petersen explains as [1]: > This is a really cool feature. You can embed other widgets inside Emacs= =20 > buffers. It=E2=80=99s a feature that Windows users will handily recogni= ze as OLE=20 > integration =E2=80=93 a staple feature of Windows since the 90s. This f= eature is more=20 > limited, however, as it only works with GTK. >=20 > For now there is just one feature that makes use of this: the Webkit br= owser=20 > integration. You can now browse web pages with webkit inside Emacs. The= =20 > feature =E2=80=93 having played with it a lot =E2=80=93 is in the very = early stages still. I=20 > would consider it alpha quality, but with it integrated into Emacs prog= ress is=20 > likely to be swift. Is anyone thinking about how this could (should? would?) be used in Org? = It=20 struck me that this could lead to Org being able to do more interactive t= hings=20 with sliders like Jupyter notebooks and RStudio (for R) allow. Whether that's a good thing to do, or indeed possible, I don't know, but = I'm=20 curious to know if anyone's got ideas about how xwidgets might be used in= Org,=20 if they're hacking on it, etc. Cheers, Bill [1] https://masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-25-1 --=20 William Denton :: Toronto, Canada :: https://www.miskatonic.org/ Caveat lector. --658601964-597632021-1474385491=:26308--