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Re: minibuffer vs dialog-boxes
From: |
Pavel Janík |
Subject: |
Re: minibuffer vs dialog-boxes |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:34:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) |
From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:23:49 +0300 (IDT)
> > In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an item
> > such as "Edit -> Search" is activated from the menu, I was just thinking
> > that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, blinking
> > (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in.
>
> Shouldn't some ingenious use of minibuffer-prompt-face be enough?
Some days ago I proposed changing the background color of the whole
minibuffer. Minibuffer-prompt-face is not enough I think. Prompt can be
short (like I-search:) and thus it is not enough to get user' attention.
Changing the background color of minibuffer will be similar to the effect
of mode-line-inactive face. Minibuffer will "stand up" from Emacs. Another
useful thing can be to change display engine to allow minibuffer at the top
of the Emacs frame...
--
Pavel Janík
panic("floppy: Port bolixed.");
-- 2.2.16 include/asm-sparc/floppy.h
Re: minibuffer vs dialog-boxes, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/19