Re: Next coup: Menus in foreign languages

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olesen, Mark <Mark.Olesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>John used to have some patches to achieve something like this, but they seem
>to have been scrapped.

I mentioned earlier that I thought this feature could be implemented
using a FIFO and even made a stab at it over the weekend.  The problem
that I encountered is that FIFOs are not well suited for multiple
clients, so I have abandoned that approach.  

Instead, I plan to implement this using the slang socket module.  The
idea would be to create an slsh script that implements a server that 
runs as a jed subprocess and communicates with it via stdio streams. A
companion script (jedclient?) would also be made available that
communicates with the server over a socket.  In this way, the
underlying C code would not have to be modified much.

Emacs uses a similar approach in the form of compiled C programs
(emacsclient and emacsserver).  In fact, if you have these programs
installed, then you can use Paul Boekholt's server.sl file to interact
with them.

--John

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