Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 17, 2020, at 16:11, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>> It may be less common to also have an input field there.
>> 
>> FWIW, the macos equivalent to the minibuffer is a "frame" that you can
>> move freely around the screen.
> 
> In Emacs too the minibuffer can be a frame
> that you can move freely around the screen.

I mean in macos it *is*. By default. I would love to have a similar feature by 
default in emacs.

Btw, I tried emacs-maple-minibuffer earlier today and there must be an issue 
with my configuration because I had remnants of windows in the desktop file 
that would float over my frames and just would not go away even after a 
restart. I had to manually edit the desktop file to make them go away, plus the 
echo area was not handled by the new windows so I had a minibuffer floating 
window and the echo remained at the bottom of the frame. It was confusing. But 
that's a different subject...


Jean-Christophe Helary
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