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Re: dropdown-list.el


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: dropdown-list.el
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 11:38:23 +0200

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> We just received the copyright assignment for dropdown-list.el.  This is
> a library that simulates "dropdown list" GUI elements by means of
> overlay strings.
>
> (This code was originally based on company-mode, which also has an
> assignment and is on elpa.gnu.org; we got the assignment for
> dropdown-list.el itself since it's used by YASnippet, which is also
> going to be on elpa.gnu.org.)
>
> It might be worth putting dropdown-list.el in Emacs core.  The code is
> not up to Emacs standards, but it is a relatively small library, and so
> should not be hard to clean up.  Has anyone taken a look at this before?
> Opinions welcome.

It is a rather nice idea, but it would be much better with support for
real drop down lists.



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