Re: [ECB-list] patch for optional inhibit of

[ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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Klaus writes:

> Simply think of ECB as a tool which wants to display some special
> windows beside an "edit-area" whereas the former one are used to
> display informational context stuff as parsed tags of the current
> buffer in the edit-area or a file- and directory tree or a
> buffer-history or or or...  The latter one (the edit-area) should
> give the user the feeling as if all windows of this edit-area would
> be the only windows in the frame so all standard operations would
> act as if the edit-windows would be the only windows in the frame...

I think this is exactly the right way to state the requirement.

> maybe i will find next weekend the needed time to write down a small
> "functional reqirement specification" which core functionality would
> be required by Emacs to rewrite ECB without a lot of its advices or
> at least with much simpler advices...

I think that would be very valuable.  I would be happy to review it.

ht
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