From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: , , <87txav5jnz.fsf@lifelogs.com>, , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395267988 6964 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 22:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 23:26:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwX-0008EV-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:26:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwW-0008Sn-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwU-0008SO-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwR-0007WS-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwR-0007WO-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQOwR-0000E1-4T; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:26:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from arthur miller on Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:41:09 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170578 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] To answer the questions: * arrow keys move normally through the file as if the overlay window was not there * arrow keys don't move into the file, nor do they move outside the file once the window get the focus * arrow keys behave just as normally as they do in a files, the context is switched by pressing with a mouse In that case, it would be easy to implement this at the display level. Of course, just because Brackets does it one way or another, does not mean Emacs has to do same way. That is true. But if that is what people find useful, we may as well do that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.