From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minibuffer positioned at a location other than the bottom of the frame? Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:27:54 +0100 Message-ID: <5A13F19A.9000502@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511256549 14305 195.159.176.226 (21 Nov 2017 09:29:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:29:09 +0000 (UTC) To: Evgeny Roubinchtein , Emacs Development Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 10:29:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eH4rS-00031N-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:28:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH4ra-00026a-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH4qs-00026R-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH4qo-00022V-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:57091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH4qn-00021t-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([46.125.249.33]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M7pI0-1f3Fap3VYm-00vSye; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:28:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:TOo/Z1f6lHHBDufUbzN2uwItICrjxxFDyTksoEukb4zcjq6an35 NJoHKUt2f/7AOoC7fTdC0mR4L5Q2j1ipHXZBIWVLC8pHvjLPVyX4YoqT0xBVpPlScm1pMQG XpDAf2z7W2U/s68aW+yq7VlWp/51pYJ/jTYd3oqFLtB5RLu61hVu6ulKVekzIaX3Fi7D5cc PutVMPs/9Dq5EIqLY9xUw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:yGPvzlu5vXk=:i9rimYQEnlnzLQbo7mdMuF vCBPWLgOxZb2gC3XeOAA2xLWY1xwDRyfajZ4IhXyw/8nWO+knnGqYo8/5VImv838SIt853z8g zz5Y1qX8qKr9Lw1Nsfy2t6KwT8S6F46diCEr3ETTZL4KGPrvrXsKgxIUa9YV2hPj5FzJbH08W FlUS9eLPUQQqro3iVNz509LjdQcKySTYuLkqRcTMt+YgdZeCEg671IO5VJFpMqYKPMxMRugAX 6uEPC91Vqjg1elwnH51sqaZctAfCJe/eJTBPVhRwbYaD4d6gzD1tS27Su1Xuu5i2hAJ+DM/3M pQTFlFm88pDSlBEPqY1xC2ticlGVtKArC35Q+afs/l+grdCtvnuMnLt84/cNJsWyrSzOxW0jZ 7NX5p0/FPOr3/o4kVge/878NSaQtqt6hHeiAyPrSdpl9JIWIF7cso9nvNoX02I4sBIRh7bWjF MA72M1TQ4LB1+rej5O3b+qLbTF/TARLTyVY9irh0B/KoBQYZHFnswP+9pDV8x6y0U55O/EdNG RZMqdMObodXiBChI9+pIBqlrEQ6CUbGFQ5xdZqemVDLwrTXGcb7A/5kOY9x8QvY6bcsGbb7h3 SImEkj9JAwmPE4n0ziitBEw0gjr1OmvNxPePFMhuVhE88t4JOOE+Si+K98qKdRJF9Rb2nge42 EDpFxON2KM5LyiYd9zzNt4NpDvGtyeN6RDgH3ZaAiALnbL8eCA+PLyYBoWQrEcFIQUSutHOKs 340Pzkhu6nrSfb/iUGIY3Ok4cauxUmNhfYKucoy2I0oGaKMU+yLzqlQ/MOSKDZS3FFLvAqW7 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220321 Archived-At: > Has any consideration been given to having the option of displaying the > minibuffer window somewhere other than the bottom of the frame? No, because ... > For > example, if I have a frame split horizontally with bufferA on top and > bufferB at the bottom, and I do an isearch in bufferA, it might (arguably) > be nice to have the minibuffer window appear below bufferA's mode line, as > opposed to below bufferB's mode line. ... if you now decide to delete the window showing bufferA, where would the minibuffer window move to? Keeping the minibuffer window constantly below a frame's selected window, for example, could be very annoying because the window configuration would change continuously. Moving it to the window where a user interaction via the minibuffer is initiated as well. So ... > moving a separate minibuffer frame to > achieve something similar, ... seems indeed the only practicable way to do what you want. martin