Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-05-17, at 11:07, Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> wrote:

>> 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.

FWIW, I would absolutely hate it as the default, since window managers
are in general worse at managing Emacs frames than Emacs is at managing
its windows.

Though of course, if it were made the default, I wouldn't mind so much,
because I'd instantly turn it off.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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