Re: Post-22.1 development?

[David Reitter]

On 7 Jun 2007, at 23:42, Sean O'Rourke wrote:

> Right, and although there's something to be said for doing things
> à la Emacs, I'm gradually accepting that it's not possible to
> convert everyone to the old-school point of view. ;)

Absolutely. If all my other applications used the same interaction  
paradigms, it would be acceptable. Humans are very adaptive (i.e.  
intelligent) animals, but we still don't like to switch modes.

I'd love to see an "Emacs component" as the plug-in editor in all  
editing fields in GUI applications, like as the editor in the e-mail  
client that I am using right now. Having a programmable editor that  
runs just inside other applications is what I'd much rather have than  
a multitude of applications running inside the programmable editor.

> > - better support of variable-width fonts
>
> Absolutely, e.g. for reading info pages.  It should be little
> more work to do this agreeably than to do it at all.

I'd actually like to use such fonts to write text. But they really  
don't play well with longlines-mode.
And I had to write a number of extra functions to be able to move the  
cursor up and down in between lines with variable-width fonts. The  
plain GNU Emacs as it comes just doesn't support that, even though  
variable-width fonts have been added a long time ago.

> > - optional replacement of windows inside frames with multiple
> >   frames
>
> This, on the other hand, seems harder to get right without
> disturbing people's habits.  Perhaps adding more customization to
> pop-to-buffer and display-buffer is the way to go?

Yes, difficult indeed, and `one-buffer-one-frame-mode' indeed works  
by changing the display function (amongst various other things).

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