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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: virtual space?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:44:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6480-Wed22Oct2003194416+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F96A856.1060909@yahoo.com> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Wed,  22 Oct 2003 09:55:02 -0600)

> From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:55:02 -0600
> > 
> > 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.

I understood that.

>  But he wants it displayed without any window manager decorations.

I understood that, too, but didn't understand _why_ he wants that, and
asked for explanations.

> > 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 understood that, but didn't understand why.

> > 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?

Because no one has coded it, I guess.  See x_create_tip_frame for how
it is done; someone needs to add similar code to the function
x-create-frame which is used to create all the other frames on
graphics displays.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-22 17:44 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
2003-10-22 17:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [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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