Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch?

[Clifford Wulfman <cwulfman@Princeton.EDU>]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    I use this feature all the time on my laptop to enable me to see  
> what's
>    underneath my editing window (a manual page, some data I'm  
> transcribing, etc.)
>
> How do you use it?  Temporarily for a moment?
> What command do you give, when you want to use it?
>
> Is this feature unique to Emacs on MacOS, or do other apps have it  
> too?

I usually set it to .9 just for effect and leave it there; when I'm  
working on something that requires more transparency (e.g.,  
transcribing something, refactoring code, describing something that's  
displayed in another window, etc.) I'll increase it.  To set it, I use  
ns-set-background-alpha from the minibuffer.

I don't know many apps on the Mac that have this feature; the  
Terminal.app does, and I use it in a similar fashion.


Dr. Clifford E. Wulfman
Coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives
Princeton University Library
cwulfman@Princeton.EDU