From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <56BDF3DE.2050704@gmail.com> <56C1AF03.7070804@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455543106 11846 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2016 13:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Gutov , =?windows-1252?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit--Claudel , Emacs developers To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 14:31:38 2016 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 1aVJFZ-0000c7-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:31:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJFY-0006wb-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJFH-0006vU-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJFE-0007bZ-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:62133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJFE-0007bK-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:16 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CVDQA731xV/6KDCkxcgxCEAsEVh0sEAgKBPDsSAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEIAQEBAR6LOoUFB4QtBYwwpw+BRSOCO4FbIIJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0CVDQA731xV/6KDCkxcgxCEAsEVh0sEAgKBPDsSAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEIAQEBAR6LOoUFB4QtBYwwpw+BRSOCO4FbIIJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="193261612" Original-Received: from 76-10-131-162.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([76.10.131.162]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 15 Feb 2016 08:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 49F26AE57C; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:31:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <56C1AF03.7070804@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:57:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:199971 Archived-At: > 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