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Article #1103Re: save the separate minibuffer! (not!)
From: Darrell Schiebel
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 17:24
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 17:24
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In article <9303012133.AA02862@banach.math.ep.utexas.edu> jerry@math.ep.utexas.EDU (Jerry Graves) writes: > David Bristor on February 26 wrote: > >> In fact, I completely disabled the separate minibuffer even as an > >> option, because observation of users familiar with ordinary Emacs made > >> it clear they could never quite figure out where it was or what it was > >> doing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > -> That's very surprising, but perhaps depends on just how the separate > -> minibuffer is used. I've seen it used in the "mode" where it flits around > -> from screen to screen, perhaps thats what you used? Perfectly awful! > > Most users here are using several X applications besides Epoch and so > have several different things going on. They found it confusing to > have the minibuffer obscured by other X Windows apps or even other > Epoch screens. (setq auto-raise-screen 'minibuf) certainly works well for me, whenever my cursor enters an Epoch screen the minibuffer at the bottom of my CRT is automatically raised above all other X windows. Darrell Schiebel
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,6e300946f9a3edb7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-02 13:15:23 PST Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!cv3!dschieb From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) Subject: Re: save the separate minibuffer! (not!) In-Reply-To: jerry@math.ep.utexas.EDU's message of 1 Mar 1993 17: 25:43 -0500 Message-ID: <DSCHIEB.93Mar2122446@muse.cv.nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory References: <9302262151.AA00473@banach.math.ep.utexas.edu> <9303012133.AA02862@banach.math.ep.utexas.edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 17:24:46 GMT Lines: 22