From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:17:40 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87siqd3t6z.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87y505rv0i.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395321433 592 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2014 13:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:17:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 14:17:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcqU-0006cB-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcqR-0002aI-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcqI-0002TR-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcqC-0005r3-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcqC-0005qw-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQcq9-0006BA-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:16:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UuaXYX29eMIel4HUvqXt5EEjjqw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170616 Archived-At: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:04:29 +0000 phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) wrote: PL> My thought, is what we need is a new GUI feature that I call PL> "mini-window". Essentially, this would be like a current window (with PL> all the features would expect -- point, buffer and so on). But it would PL> differ from a current window in that: a) it would have no or few PL> decorations -- no border, no scrollbars, no mode line and b) it's PL> positioning would be wrt another window -- it would either be positioned PL> at one of the cardinal positions of an existing window or it would be PL> positioned wrt a marker or an overlay in an existing buffer. The latter PL> would scroll with the main buffer, the former would be static. For the (a) piece, see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/140353 (discussion of a just-the-text Emacs frame) that got some good results in X. Ted