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GNU Emacs Now Has Native Support For GTK Widgets (phoronix.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-tool-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The GNU Emacs text editor now has merged the X Widgets branch. What this work allows is for embedding GTK+ user interface widgets within Emacs for features like landing MPlayer or a full web browser in Emacs. This allows now for more endless opportunities for the 40 year old GNU text editor. The X/GTK widgets support will come with GNU Emacs 25.1.

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  1. Re:EMACS Memory Footprint? by olau · · Score: 5, Informative

    My Emacs with a ton of buffers opened with a bunch of fancy modes is using 66 MB resident, according to top. It's been open for 6 hours now.

    A fresh instance with no stuff in it (emacs -Q) is 39 MB.