From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: minibuffer vs dialog-boxes Date: 18 Apr 2002 21:51:51 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87662p6ufs.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200204181154.g3IBsIL01245@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019134597 13789 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 12:56:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16yBSn-0003aI-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:56:37 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yBly-0000VM-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:16:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yBQP-0006K6-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yBOV-0006BL-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-242.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.242] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16yBOQ-0006Nk-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:52:09 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C68423012; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:51:51 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200204181154.g3IBsIL01245@rum.cs.yale.edu> Original-Lines: 14 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2724 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an item > such as "Edit -> Search" is activated from the menu, I was just thinking > that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, blinking > (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in. How about dancing elephants? -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal