From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: better than read-hide-char
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 10:59:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f23f4416-f06b-2b73-dafc-8faacdbb0633@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvva8vmabo.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
On 2018-07-31 16:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This sounds like a good idea, but I think it'd be even better to put
>> that information in the modeline of the window above the minibuffer,
>> rather than in the minibuffer itself.
>
> My minibuffer lives in its own frame, with no obvious "window above".
>
> [ At startup, there is no modeline at all. Admittedly, by the time
> read-passwd gets called, there will probably be some frame displaying
> a window with modeline somewhere, but the point is that there's no
> clear modeline attached to the minibuffer, in general. ]
Sure, but we don't necessarily need it to work in all cases.
How does eldoc do in your case?
Clément.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-01 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-31 2:25 better than read-hide-char Richard Stallman
2018-07-31 7:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-31 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-08-01 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-31 9:25 ` Simon Leinen
2018-07-31 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-01 15:48 ` Davis Herring
2018-08-01 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-02 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-07-31 16:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-31 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 14:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2018-08-01 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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