Re: [Sheflug] Java IDE

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> Could someone elaborate or point me to a discussion of this
    Will> fabled GTK bug that only allows "one console at a time"?

It's not a fable, it's an intentional mis-design.  There is no way in
GTK (as of August 2000, anyway, and as of that time there was no
intention to fix this) to create a window on another display.
("Console" is internal Emacs terminology for the structure that XEmacs
creates to denote an MS-Windows desktop, a Mac desktop, a NeXT
display, an X display, a TTY, a stdio stream, or a GTK display, that
can be used to send editing commands and receive display output.)

You can use gnuclient to connect to a running gtk-xemacs, and edit
from a terminal.  But you can't send an Emacs frame to another X
display.  (Period.  Both the Windows and NeXT ports, and possibly the
Mac port, allow you to open frames over the network on another X
display, but GTK can't do this.)

I use this capability all the time, as do many of the XEmacs
developers and users active on the mailing lists.  It is one of the
main misfeatures that prevents general acceptance of GTK as the
obvious strategy for updating the XEmacs GUI interface.

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