On 29 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik Bj�nnes wrote:
> Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, John Levon wrote:
> |
> | > I'm going to see if I can hack up some xforms completion popup for the
>minibuffer.
> |
> | Why not open a new buffer and play in there emacs style?
>
> And hide the buffer that you are currently working on? Does not seem
> like a good solution.
Who said it had to take up anymore screen space than the few lines of
completions that might exist.
> Have two buffers visible at the same time? Sure, you develop that...
> (cleanly!)
> And we don't want the user to be able to "play in there".
The user won't be playing in there. You use emacs you know how completion
buffers look. I meant John could play in there.
> | If I understood correctly something like this was done in the Gnome
> | port.(?)
>
> What I want with the minibuffer completion is not that the minibuffer
> shows the completion popup, but that a signal is emitted telling the
> GUI to show the completion window, if it is a split of the LyXView, a
> popup or whatever is beside the point.
Sure.
Allan. (ARRae)
