Web Browsing with Emacs

[theKbStockpiler]

I'm not getting how this is done. Does Emacs run another application inside of it like a shell or is the browsing code part of Emacs?

Thanks in advance!

[Cabhan]

I've never used Emacs's web browser, but it's important to understand how Emacs works. Emacs is really essentially a program-running environment that has a text editor. However, you can write all sorts of applications in it. They have written video editors, digital psychiatrists, and all sorts of stuff that all run within Emacs.

It is possible that they are running something like links and just displaying it in Emacs, but I suspect that it is, in fact, a native Emacs application.

[theKbStockpiler]

Would that be "Lynx" the brower and by natively would that be that they are both written with the same language or and does Emacs interpret it because it is an interpreter?

[Cabhan]

There are a whole set of CLI web browsers: links, elinks, lynx, etc. .

I believe that Emacs is written in C (and some Lisp), and it acts as an interpreter for the Emacs Lisp programming language. Using this language, you can write programs that run inside of Emacs, and I suspect that this is how the web browser works.

[sam619]

W3 is a web browser that runs in emacs and only in emacs, which is written completelt in LISP.

for more deatils ckeck this address - .emacswiki.org/emacs/w3