From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: virtual space? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:44:06 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7137-Tue21Oct2003074406+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <87y8vgbhdc.fsf@lucien.dreaming> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066715602 11162 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 05:53:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 07:53:20 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 1ABpSK-0004yh-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:53:20 +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 1ABpOu-0008VT-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABpOh-0008VL-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABpOB-0008QV-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.18] (helo=bilbo.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABpOA-0008QS-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.157.144]) by bilbo.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BRL00657; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:49:00 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (mdurland@ix.netcom.com) 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:13401 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13401 > From: "Michael Durland" > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:52:28 GMT > > I find it hard to believe that the most well known/respected best > editor on the planet can't do it. Perhaps because it's much easier to get used to Emacs's behavior wrt cursor movement than to implement the feature you want. > Can someone please point me to how to submit a wishlist request for > the next version of emacs? Please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org. > I really want to learn this great editor, but stuff like this is > frustrating. When I need to work on UNIX where I don't have my trusty TSE > Pro, I was hoping I could customize emacs to do what I need. But it just > lacks key features. e.g. virtual space and popup windows being the ones I > can't live without. Can you explain why do you need the popup windows so badly (and what do you mean by that, exactly)? You gave one example, but is that really all there is to it? > Emacs windows and frames do not cut it for popup > windows. On this note, I saw another post requesting popup windows as well, > e.g. in order to implement something akin to the C++ class member > autocompletion popups of many editors. I read this can be somewhat faked > with the new tooltip concept, but it is not a complete solution. *sigh* 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?