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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dropdown-list.el
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 13:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinR10fnwcvsxfkMm0sjgXqEmrmMfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110522061336.266B513C50D@vps1.kiwanami.net>

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:13 AM, SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net> wrote:
>
> * popup-menu* (popup.el)
>
> The menu is also drawn by overlay texts, so one can use it in the terminal.
> The code is not short (about 1000 lines), but it has many functions
> and customization points for the general purposes.
> It has following functions:
>
> - one can scroll the menu in the case of many items
> - incremental search and narrowing
> - one can construct a cascading menu
> - a menu item can display the summary and documentation
>  like completion menus in the Eclipse and Visual Studio.
>
> The library popup.el is used by auto-complete (http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/).

Since it uses overlays it can not extend outside of Emacs windows.
This is often quite awful.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-22 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-21  2:00 dropdown-list.el Chong Yidong
2011-05-21  9:38 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
2011-05-22  6:13 ` dropdown-list.el SAKURAI Masashi
2011-05-22 11:48   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-05-22 12:28     ` dropdown-list.el Leo
2011-05-22 13:39       ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman

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