From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer? Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:31:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <6999B5E2-8EB3-11D8-9A7F-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <87vfjp48ir.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082925419 27411 80.91.224.253 (25 Apr 2004 20:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 25 22:36:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BHqMu-0002Sa-00 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:36:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BHqMt-00010a-00 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:36:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BHqKn-0003Tl-62 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BHqKg-0003TK-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BHqK7-0003AV-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.175.24.41] (helo=elvis.franken.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BHqK7-000387-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1BHqK5-0003CZ-00; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:33:57 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id A7487C9A5B; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:31:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: <87vfjp48ir.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:59:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22137 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22137 Kai Grossjohann writes: > For short highlighted text as in the above example, it might look > cute. But I think this kind of visual feedback is not practical if > the highlighted text is longer than the window size. On MacOS X the text to be inserted is a shadowed box container attached to the mouse pointer and the point in the target window where text can be dropped is marked with a vertical bar. -- | ,__o | _-\_<, http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | (*)/'(*)