From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T08:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Full Screen Editor

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:45:20AM +0900, Firestone, Mark - Technical Support wrote:
> The main reason to have it written in Ruby was for ease of integration into
> the rest of the program.  I'm not sure how to pass the socket IO to an
> external program and back...

I see ... well, Emacs lisp has library functions for sockets, I'm pretty
sure. I won't say it's easy to program with them, but certainly doable.
Other editors ... now that I think of it, I suspect most other editors
can't do sockets, but Vi and its clones and probably a whole lot of
others can certainly interact via shell commands, using pipes or FIFOs.

However, there is the security thing Dossy brought up ... sigh ... I
hate security. The world would be so much simpler without it.

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Matt Gushee
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