Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor

[John S. Yates, Jr.]

Since the subject of buffers, windows, frames and their management is up for a
bit of serious brainstorming I want to bring up the great surge of interest in
tiling window managers.  Thriving examples include

  dwm      http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm
  awesome  http://awesome.naquadah.org/
  xmonad   http://www.xmonad.org/

Drew's OneOnOne efforts have pushed in the direction of moving away from a
collection of emacs managed windows within a single frame.But IIUC the model
he is pursuing tends towards a bunch of overlapping (cascaded?) shrunk-to-fit
frames.  Nonetheless, Drew has identified a number of ways in which emacs
remains seriously biased toward reusing a small number of windows within a
single frame.  

I suggest that dynamically managed tiling is deeply ingrained in the emacs
model.  Reaching an accommodation with these tiling window managers could be a
liberating event.  It would free emacs from having to offer ever richer window
management and window layout capabilities.  And it would make the wealth of
these rapidly evolving window managers available for laying out emacs windows
(frames).  Further, it would allow other windows that the user might have open
to participate in screen layout on an equal footing with those belonging to
emacs.

/john