Re: printed representation -> C string

Jim Blandy (jimb@red-bean.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:39:42 -0500

>I wrote a Gtk widget to take expressions in one text entry and show the
>result of evaluating them in another, sort of a little dialog box for
>talking to the interpreter. It's probably pretty useless because a repl in
>an xterm is just as good, or better, but it was an educational exercise.

Does Gtk have a widget for entering multiple lines of text?

If so, it would be very groovy to have a kind of Guile I/O port that
reads/writes to a Gtk text widget. That would make what you wanted
very easy to implement: (write object widget-port)