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Re: save the separate minibuffer! (not!)

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From: Darrell Schiebel
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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From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Subject: Re: save the separate minibuffer! (not!)
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