From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87txav5jnz.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395216453 9784 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 08:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:07:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 09:07:42 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 1WQBXI-0007Ap-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:07:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBXH-00037F-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBX7-00036t-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBX0-000389-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBX0-00037q-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQBWw-0006aL-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:07:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 188-143-25-65.pool.digikabel.hu ([188.143.25.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:07:18 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 188-143-25-65.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:07:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 188.143.25.65 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:170519 Archived-At: Vibhav Pant gmail.com> writes: > > From what I can see, this would require the usage of a "tooltip-like" > text editing interface, which should be easy to implement for Emacs > builds using a windowing system, though making it work for the text > interface should be pretty hard. For windowing systems it could also be done with a popup frame which is positioned there where the cursor is and disappears like a tooltip when not needed.