🚀 go-pugleaf

In gnu.epoch.misc Brook Conner <dbc@cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> 
> I suppose in theory it shouldn't be hard to modify x_create_screen to
> make a new connection

The real tricky part is resource usage: you have to be careful to use server
IDs only with the server they came from, whereas right now, X ids are stored
all over the place.  (We're probably going to do it eventually.)

> Also, you'd have to hack the event handling code in a major way --- I don't
> want to think what that might look like.

This part is a no-brainer in lemacs.

> This kind of thing (and others, like dialing up via modem and
> connecting to an existing Emacs process) is one reason why Emacs 19 is
> using the X Toolkit to handle event processing.

You mean Lucid Emacs; FSF19 still uses raw Xlib, which is a bad idea for
the reason you just stated...

	-- Jamie