From: "John S. Yates, Jr." <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:06:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <stfdu3dgg58jfm2bmie93a0tbese5sfgos@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E6B1F0.7080909@emf.net>
Thomas Lord writes:
>Even better, add a few functions to emacs and turn it into an
>X11 window manager, extensible in self-documenting lisp.
>Consider the root window as a frame.
Has already been done:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XWindowEmacsManager
The problem is that a few functions alone do not a polished window manager
make. Do you honestly believe that the emacs community would find the
expertise, the focus and the bandwidth to match any of the projects that I
cited? I am sure that it would do a competent job organizing and laying out
emacs windows. I have much less confidence that the idiosyncrasies of windows
displayed by the full panoply of non-emacs applications would receive
comparable attention.
There is also an important argument against having emacs at the bottom of the
stack. So long as emacs remains single threaded both window and input event
management would likely freeze each time emacs became busy.
/john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 21:06 UTC|newest]
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2008-03-22 21:45 Neat features in Eclipse editor Richard Stallman
2008-03-22 21:56 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-22 21:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-03-22 23:09 ` Leo
2008-03-23 14:18 ` William Xu
2008-03-23 2:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-23 9:53 ` joakim
2008-03-23 10:50 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-23 10:54 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-23 19:35 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2008-03-23 19:39 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-23 21:06 ` John S. Yates, Jr. [this message]
2008-03-23 21:42 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-23 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-25 8:11 ` dtm
2008-03-24 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-24 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 19:02 ` joakim
2008-03-25 1:06 ` Bastien
2008-03-25 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 19:19 ` Rajappa Iyer
2008-03-26 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-26 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-18 13:25 ` joakim
2008-04-19 2:23 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 18:47 ` paul r
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 3:53 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Stefan Monnier
2008-03-25 10:54 ` Window configuration UI Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-26 4:47 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Richard Stallman
2008-03-26 9:41 ` Window configuration UI Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-27 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-27 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-29 16:27 ` Michael Sperber
2008-03-31 2:41 ` Window configuration UI (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Nick Roberts
2008-03-31 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-01 3:00 ` Window configuration UI Stefan Monnier
2008-04-01 21:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 10:08 ` Neat features in Eclipse editor paul r
2008-03-25 10:55 ` David Reitter
2008-03-25 11:35 ` paul r
2008-03-25 21:00 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 22:10 ` paul r
2008-03-26 1:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 23:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 2:23 ` Evans Winner
2008-03-26 7:09 ` Jan Djärv
2008-03-26 7:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-26 22:38 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-26 22:57 ` paul r
2008-03-26 23:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-27 6:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-27 0:22 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-27 0:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-27 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-27 20:18 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-03-27 0:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-25 0:48 ` Bastien
2008-03-24 1:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-24 12:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-24 18:24 ` joakim
2008-03-25 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-06 20:52 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Juri Linkov
2008-04-06 23:07 ` Tab bar David Koppelman
2008-04-06 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 0:05 ` David Koppelman
2008-04-07 0:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-08 15:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-08 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-09 10:33 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 23:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-08 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 22:11 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 8:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 9:34 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 13:58 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-04-08 14:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 15:55 ` Paul R
2008-04-08 16:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-08 16:24 ` Paul R
2008-04-08 16:25 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-04-08 20:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 21:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 21:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-09 2:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-09 8:50 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 7:55 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-09 10:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 14:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 22:09 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 8:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-09 8:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 16:50 ` Ehud Karni
2008-04-07 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-08 15:36 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 10:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 1:37 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Drew Adams
2008-04-07 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 23:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-07 23:33 ` Tab bar Juri Linkov
2008-04-07 15:00 ` Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:59 ` Tab bar David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 22:06 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 1:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-09 8:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09 9:24 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-09 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-10 6:11 ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10 7:31 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 7:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 8:08 ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 23:11 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-12 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 9:45 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 23:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-10 8:09 ` Paul R
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2008-03-28 1:49 Neat features in Eclipse editor Josh Gilbert
2008-03-28 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
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