Re: Keep the Separate Minibuffer

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From: Dipankar Gupta
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 15:20

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I'll join the general chorus of ``separate minibuffer or death''. Rationale:
- real-estate
- virtual window managers that allow ``sticky'' windows
- force of habit

It's way down on Jamie's list of things-to-be-done, but I hope that
there are enough SMers[sic] to hack it in.

Lucid emacs has some big pluses:
- Better input model
- Xt wrappers
- Ability to incorporate other Xt widgets
- Timers
- Nicely structured distribution (separate elisp directories, loadpath...)

My main problems with lemacs have been in the display code (should go
away after the mythical Great Display Rewrite), and the size/bloat.
Also, multi-screen is not as nippy as epoch and it crashes much more
often. All these are probably, as Jamie pointed out, due to the
relatively short lifetime it's had. 

Cheers,
Dipankar

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