Keep the Separate Minibuffer

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3 total messages Started by Michael A. Petonic Mon, 01 Mar 1993 23:15

#1099

Author: Michael A. Petonic
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 23:15

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Just adding my note to counter Jerry Grave's voice.  The separate
minibuffer is tremendously helpful.  In fact, of all the Epoch users
at HaL (at least 8), all of them, that I know of, use a separate
minibuffer and would lament the passing of that feature.

-pet-
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Re: Keep the Separate Minibuffer

#1101

Author: Gary Beckmann
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 15:16

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Allow me to also add my voice for the separate mini-buffer.  Those who
don't like it in our shop tend to be those who use their X-server as a
very large terminal emulator.  I put my mini-buffer at the top of the
screen (heads up!), and run a minimum of fours screens below it. 

As an aside, I use the point and click to make my window active.
There are those who never reach for their coffee and inadvertantly
change focus, but I prefer to be explicit in what I want. 

--
					Gary Beckmann
					gary@jcrtk.dfci.harvard.edu
					beckmann@das.harvard.edu

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Re: Keep the Separate Minibuffer

#1107

Author: 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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