From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-2?q?Jan=EDk?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: minibuffer vs dialog-boxes Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:34:36 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019297550 601 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 10:12:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16yrr3-00009a-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16ysAq-0002Vq-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:32:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yrqq-0004S0-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 06:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from p0129.as-l043.contactel.cz ([194.108.242.129] helo=SnowWhite.SuSE.cz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yrp4-0002xP-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 06:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: by SnowWhite.SuSE.cz (PJ, from userid 500) id 1CB51183D2; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:12:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Face: $"d&^B_IKlTHX!y2d,3;grhwjOBqOli]LV`6d]58%5'x/kBd7.MO&n3bJ@Zkf&RfBu|^qL+ ?/Re{MpTqanXS2'~Qp'J2p^M7uM:zp[1Xq#{|C!*'&NvCC[9!|=>#qHqIhroq_S"MH8nSH+d^9*BF: iHiAs(t(~b#1.{w.d[=Z In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:23:49 +0300 (IDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 24 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2827 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:23:49 +0300 (IDT) > > In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an item > > such as "Edit -> Search" is activated from the menu, I was just thin= king > > that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, blinking > > (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in. >=20 > Shouldn't some ingenious use of minibuffer-prompt-face be enough? Some days ago I proposed changing the background color of the whole minibuffer. Minibuffer-prompt-face is not enough I think. Prompt can be short (like I-search:) and thus it is not enough to get user' attention. Changing the background color of minibuffer will be similar to the effect of mode-line-inactive face. Minibuffer will "stand up" from Emacs. Another useful thing can be to change display engine to allow minibuffer at the top of the Emacs frame... --=20 Pavel Jan=EDk panic("floppy: Port bolixed."); -- 2.2.16 include/asm-sparc/floppy.h