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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: "Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	"Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>,
	"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy4amnltv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C1AF03.7070804@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:57:07 +0100")

> Is there any reason you cannot use menus for this purpose?

IIRC menus have been used for that, but they can't be controlled finely
enough (they're provided by the toolkit), so you can't make it so the
user can keep typing while the menu is displayed (and refine the
content of the menu as the user types).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-12 15:01 Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-13  2:15 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-13  3:35   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-13  3:57     ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 20:12       ` Creating a "borderless" frame (without WM chrome) (was Re: Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp?) Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 22:41         ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 22:55           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 23:14             ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 23:46               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-17  9:13                 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-17 13:49                   ` Chris Feng
2016-02-17 14:55                     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18  1:28                       ` Chris Feng
2016-02-17 14:57                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18 10:51                     ` martin rudalics
2016-02-14 14:05     ` Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp? Stefan Monnier
2016-02-14 16:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-14 17:19         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-14 18:00           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-16 20:06       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-15 10:57 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-15 13:31   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-02-16 20:06     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 20:05   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 21:33     ` Johan Bockgård
2016-02-16 22:18       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-17  9:12     ` martin rudalics
2016-02-17 14:26       ` Clément Pit--Claudel

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