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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-suggesting Packages
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:13:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8334uxcnvi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edeh9v39.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:06:02 +0000)

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:06:02 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Is it really a good idea to show this on the mode line?  Why not in
> > the echo-area?  We have several features that suggest tips, and AFAIK
> > they all show the tips in the echo-area.
> 
> That is also implemented, I don't know what default is better.  The
> reason I considered the mode line is because having the information
> displayed persistently might something that newcomer appreciate,
> especially when they are prone to overlooking something, especially in
> the echo area.

Then how about displaying it on a header-line instead (or as an
option)?

> I know that VSCode has something along these lines with
> a popup window.

We could offer a popup window as well, or (on GUI terminals) maybe a
dialog box.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-16 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-16  8:18 Auto-suggesting Packages Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-16  9:01 ` Stephen Berman
2024-01-16  9:26   ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-16 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-16 15:06   ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-16 15:13     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-16 16:18       ` Philip Kaludercic

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