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Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:00:17 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:04:29 +0000 address@hidden (Phillip Lord) wrote:
>
> PL> My thought, is what we need is a new GUI feature that I call
> PL> "mini-window". Essentially, this would be like a current window (with
> PL> all the features would expect -- point, buffer and so on). But it would
> PL> differ from a current window in that: a) it would have no or few
> PL> decorations -- no border, no scrollbars, no mode line and b) it's
> PL> positioning would be wrt another window -- it would either be positioned
> PL> at one of the cardinal positions of an existing window or it would be
> PL> positioned wrt a marker or an overlay in an existing buffer. The latter
> PL> would scroll with the main buffer, the former would be static.
>
> For the (a) piece, see
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/140353 (discussion of a
> just-the-text Emacs frame) that got some good results in X.
I think we are talking at cross-purposes. When I said "window" I mean
"window-as-in-emacs" rather than "frame".
What I was hoping to achieve was something like the attached. The help
window is a mini-window embedded in the bottom left and tied to
cancel-timer bit of the text.
Phil
emacs-miniwindow.png
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- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, (continued)
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/19
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Phillip Lord, 2014/03/20
- RE: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, arthur miller, 2014/03/20
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/20
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Phillip Lord, 2014/03/21
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, chad, 2014/03/21
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/21
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Stefan, 2014/03/20
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Phillip Lord, 2014/03/20
- Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/03/20
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RE: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs, arthur miller, 2014/03/19
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