nEXT inside a emacs-buffer? about nyxt HOT 5 CLOSED

Just a note that there is some experimental work for getting xwidgets (well, webkit) in an emacs buffer in macos: https://github.com/veshboo/emacs

I've also done some work to get that to work in Mituharu's macos port of emacs as well: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/pull-requests/1/rfc-add-xwidget-implementation/diff

That being said, I'm not sure the emacs approach is really suitable or even a goal of this project (I'd be interested to hear back on that, though).

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Ok thanks will check that out :-)

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Hey Sean, that is some amazing stuff! I had no idea that was even remotely possible! The emacs approach is not a goal of this project, though I’m not heavily against it if someone wants to integrate it. I imagine if you have just webkit working, and since there is now an X version/ and a cocoa version of nEXT, it should be possible to also run nEXT within a buffer. That may be confusing to have buffers within buffers though.

What also could be possible if I provide an external API for getting individual views extracted out of nEXT to make it easier to have a “buffer per buffer” with on nEXT instance, so you can still have all of the other functionality I’ve built in like link-hinting etc.

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Oh, yeah, that sounds promising! Having an external API and/or one-buffer makes a lot of sense. I'll have to check back when I have a bit more time to dig around with all of this.

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