Re: File menu changes (suggestions)

[Robert J. Chassell]

"John S. Yates, Jr." <address@hidden> wrote

   Except for the fact that MDI document windows are not tiled
   they are very akin to Emacs windows.  

I don't know about MDI documents.

There is a huge difference between deleting other windows within a
frame and maximizing a frame so it covers all the other frames that
previously could be seen.

In my non-Emacs programs, the word `maximize' means `occupy an entire
desktop (or `workspace'; the language varies)', not `occupy one frame
in a manner that also provides for a mode line and echo area'

Are the displays in which MDI documents are shown like Emacs windows
which exist in a frame?  Can you have two or three of them in the same
frame?

    - the clicked document grows to occupy the entire workspace
      of the MDI application (essentially the containing Emacs
      frame)

When you say this, do you mean the buffer grows to occupy an entire
frame?  You use the word `essentially' which suggests that the `entire
workspace' is something other than a frame whose size you do not
change.

Or do you mean the buffer (and frame dressing) grows to occupy an
entire desktop and covers over all the other frames visible on that
desktop?  (This is what `maximize' means for my frames.)

I have just changed the work area for writing this message to occupy
one frame and also provide for mode line and echo area.  Eleven other
frames are visible on this desktop, and this user and session are
running seven other desktops with thirty-seven other frames visible on
them.  (I had not realized how many frames I was running.  Of these
frames, only five are different instances of Emacs.)

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