Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 17, 2020, at 19:20, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
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> On 2020-05-17, at 11:07, Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> 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.

Indeed. I'm just thinking of the device as a thing to be packaged in emacs for 
easy triggering by newcomers, or something like this.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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