From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael Durland" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: virtual space? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:26:00 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87y8vgbhdc.fsf@lucien.dreaming> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066786346 8483 80.91.224.253 (22 Oct 2003 01:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 03:32:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AC7rL-000097-01 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:32:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AC7qZ-0008W5-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:31:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.203.124 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1066785960 165.247.203.124 (Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:26:00 PDT) mdurland@ix.netcom.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:26:00 PDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117518 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13449 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13449 "Eli Zaretskii" wrote in message news:mailman.2047.1066715377.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... > > Emacs has an optional feature to cause it pop up a new frame > (``window'' in your parlance) to display comlpetion results. See the > documentation of the variable `special-display-buffer-names'. Why > isn't this sufficient? > Is there a way to show these spawned special frames without an actual "frame" around them? That is, just the window contents with no title bar, no resizing border, etc. Just the actual contents inside the frame? That way it could appear on top of the existing frame and have the appearance that it is part of the same frame. I found how to specify some properties of the frame, like position and size, but I didn't figure out how to specify system properties like what "style" the spawned frame has. Another example where this is useful is to have a virtual ruler that floats around over the text. This can be used to measure how wide strings are. I have found this feature useful in the past. With a real frame, the "frame stuff" gets in the way of the actual contents, which in this case would be numbers with tick marks as periods. Maybe this particular example could be done with an overlay. I'll see if I can look into that. Thanks