Re: save the separate minibuffer! (not!)

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From: Mark Burhans
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 17:53

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In article <1mmidqINNs22@fido.asd.sgi.com>, shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni) writes:
|> Jerry Graves (jerry@math.ep.utexas.EDU) wrote:
|> 
|> > I won't say that those who prefer a separate minibuffer don't deserve
|> > a choice, but it would be my guess the Jamie and fellow coders at
|> > Lucid would have less of a headache by eliminating a seldom used
|> > option.  If it makes any difference, when I upgraded Epoch from 3.2 to
|> > 4.0, everyone here was very pleased that this orphan minibuffer had
|> > finally returned home.
|> 
|> I wouldn't call it a "seldom-used option". Maybe we should have a poll here
|> to see how many of the epoch users actually use a separate-minibuffer..
|> 

I would.  I don't use it.  I vote for the default to be no
separate-minibuffer, with a switch to make it separate.

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