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I'm still here

#739
From: Jim.Rees
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 18:25
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I won't be moving to lucid, because they made the unfortunate choice of
switching from C to a different source language.  I've tried emacs 19 but
haven't switched to it yet, partly because I haven't been able to build it
for all the machines I use, but partly because of this list of gripes.

I'm providing this mostly as information for people considering a switch
from epoch to emacs 19, but if you know the answers to any of these, I'd
like to hear it.

cursor warps (and focus shifts) to Completions window, have to manually move
it back to the minibuf each time.

get a new Completions frame each time (investigate frame-pop package?)

Completions frame says "Click mouse-2 on a completion to select it," but
that's a lie.  Mouse 2 pastes like anywhere else.

how to suppress initial *scratch* frame?

minibuf autoraise doesn't work (wm bug?)

how to control minibuf geometry depending on display size?

cursor is opaque sometimes

better frame placement would be nice.

dragging mouse 1 shouldn't move point

pasting from X is really strange!  funny delays.

running gnuclient yields "cannot switch buffers in minibuf" if there are no
frames visible.  Or, if there are, it switches buffers in one of the visible
frames, leaving you with no view of whatever was in that frame before.

gnuclient doesn't return until emacs exits.
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Subject: I'm still here
Date: 14 Apr 1994 18:25:15 GMT
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