Emacs 25.1 Will Have X Widgets Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Emacs 25.1 Will Have X Widgets Support

For users of Emacs, the long-maintained XWidget branch that provides support for embedding GTK+ widgets into Emacs, has been merged to master and will be present for Emacs 25.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Emacs-Lands-X-Widgets

[uid313]

This can be good to implement maybe color preview in CSS files.
Or range pickers for integers, or color pickers.

[eugene2k]

Any news on when the emacs developers plan to embed the linux kernel into emacs? It seems such a waste not to have it in a text editor...

[Passso]

More powerful than april's fool : Emacs news!

I loved when Emacs put those crazy doctors and games in, but I do not get it for those GTK items integration.
Can anyone give me real life use case? (this is not irony, the potential is high but I cannot imagine what to do with that...)

[Azpegath]

This is completely insane. You have to love Emacs developers. Now, all they need is a decent editor.

[jwymanm]

This is trully great. Combine emacs with sane keymaps and tramp, slime/cider, magit and now GTK and you become an unstoppable programming force

[blackiwid]

I could see better viewing of org-mode stuff. as example a todo list with nice tooknig todo/done buttons and stuff like that. Emacs was and is more or less a very flexible and powerful lisp interpreter with some preloaded code as example a editor.

Because its all about custumization that is a nice feature, if you dont want such stuff just dont use it.

and the browser is a good point ewb is a nice idea make the web as easy hackable as emacs is would be nice.

I use as example right now conkeror, which is a ediitor that tries to give you as much emacs power as possible, but even I use exwm I have to use seperate keybindings. I have a js config file, I got rid of the configs of i3wm and stumpwm by switching to exwm, that helped alot (no cascading window switching code not 2 different buffer menues) but browser is still not 100% integrated.

while ewb only text mode is not good enough for me, Id would love to have as example such forum in my newsreader to read/write in there (gnus) my comments somehow but that will not happen. I mean there is shimbun but that was always only for a few sites and even there its outdated. so having a usable browser inside is the next best thing.

I dont think its so much about buttons that you want to press with mouse thats maybe a nice fearue for beginners or a optional aditional feature but at the moment you either can display pure text or a picture not soch vector/web structures mixed with text.

So like the news mention it, its more about webrendering in a graphical way instead of ascii-art.

[hoohoo]

By the time Wayland takes over the world you will probably be able to host X Window inside Emacs.

[sjukfan]

Who needs a system init when there's Emacs? Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

[alexvoda]

More powerful than april's fool : Emacs news!

I loved when Emacs put those crazy doctors and games in, but I do not get it for those GTK items integration.
Can anyone give me real life use case? (this is not irony, the potential is high but I cannot imagine what to do with that...)

Here are some ideas.
- A document minimap scroll-bar like in Sublime Text
- Semantic font size. For example important comments are larger like here https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.mic...5-608706f54a92
- Graphic hints in code and in autocomplete lists.
- Graph organization of code. For example Code Bubbles and Debugger Canvas.
- Using plugins meant for Atom
- Live rendering of HTML while editing