Re: [Texmacs-dev] wait window and position markers

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Also note that there is a patch[1] available to simply disable this
> window as a preference option.
> 
>   [1] 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=616&group_id=156
> 
> This patch will be included in my personal TeXmacs source releases[2].
> 
>   [2] http://ddaa.net/texmacs#patch

Yes, but what we really need is displaying the message in the status bar,
in red on yellow colors in order to attract the attention.

> > >  a. grab the scroller, and move it with the mouse
> > >  b. move the cursor to the left of the text, where it is outside all 
> > > areas,
> > >     and then scroll with page up/down. Otherwise the cursor will get 
> > > "caught"
> > >     in one of the sessions.
> > 
> > Just click with the right-hand button...
> 
> I did not know about that before... When left clicking on the
> scrollbar, everyone expects page scroll. The small scroll binding is
> useful (one does not have to point the scroll arrow), but it should
> not be the left-click action.
> 
> I suggest these bindings be reversed:
> 
>   -- left click: page scroll
> 
>   -- right click: small scroll

Done.

> > > Another possibility is to use some features of the fact that we are 
> > > dealing 
> > > with a terminal. I can actually know when R is waiting for more input. 
> > > That 
> > > would be good if at some point you plan to incorporate a system that 
> > > would 
> > > insert text no at the current cursor position, but at the cursor position 
> > > when the input was sent to R. I could then somehow tell TeXmacs: this is 
> > > the 
> > > output that belongs to input no. 3, this is the output that belongs to 
> > > input 
> > > no. 4, and so on.
> > 
> > That sounds good. We indeed plan to add support for this as soon as
> > we can remember the position where the output should appear.
> 
> Are not "positions" (i.e. markers) already supported in TeXmacs?

Yes, but not for sessions.