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Can Emacs be used as a text editor component inside another program?

I am specially inspired by the Python Spyder IDE . Here, for example, IPython can be used as a Python console to run programs. I was wondering if there could be any hope of changing it to use Emacs as its "text editor window", i.e. Integrated into the GUI?

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(Spyder dev here) This is not possible now, sorry. There are two options that we are considering in the future:

  • Adding Emacs keyboard shortcuts to our editor area.

  • Adding a Qt widget that emulates a real terminal where users can run Emacs and then use it as their editor.



Option 2 is probably the best, but I don't know of such a widget that is licensed by BSD / MIT (the only licenses we can use).

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I manually changed keyboard shortcuts

it to fit emacs

. It only takes a few minutes. I've just modified the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts.



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