From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: virtual space?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:55:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F96A856.1060909@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2213.1066834114.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: "Michael Durland" <mdurland@ix.netcom.com>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:26:00 GMT
>>
>>>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?
>
>
> I don't understand why is this an issue (can you explain?), but it
> sounds like the default Emacs behavior, whereby the possible
> completions are shown in a window in the same frame, should satisfy
> your needs, since there's no new frame borders involved. What am I
> missing?
He liked your suggestion to display the *Completions* buffer in its own
frame, via special-display-buffer-names. But he wants it displayed
without any window manager decorations.
>>That way it could appear on top of the existing frame and have the
>>appearance that it is part of the same frame.
>
> A separate window popped by Emacs by default in the same frame is, in
> fact, part of the same frame. What's wrong with that?
He wants the buffer/window to have a separate (special) 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.
>
> What do you mean by the frame's ``style''?
I think he wants a new frame property (e.g. window-manager-decorations) that he
could specify in special-display-frame-alist.
...
>>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.
>>
>
> It is possible, at least in principle, to have frames without borders
> (that's how Emacs creates tooltips, a.k.a. ``balloon help''), if that
> is important, although I don't think you can do that now in Emacs.
Exactly -- but why not?
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-19 21:31 virtual space? Michael Durland
2003-10-19 21:52 ` Sudarshan S. Chawathe
2003-10-19 23:25 ` Michael Durland
2003-10-20 5:36 ` Björn Lindström
2003-10-21 1:52 ` Michael Durland
2003-10-21 4:07 ` Dan Anderson
2003-10-21 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-21 8:47 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-10-21 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 1:33 ` Michael Durland
[not found] ` <mailman.2047.1066715377.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-22 1:26 ` Michael Durland
2003-10-22 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2213.1066834114.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-22 15:55 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-10-22 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2225.1066844986.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-02 21:09 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-22 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-02 21:04 ` Kai Grossjohann
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