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Re: dropdown-list.el
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: dropdown-list.el |
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Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:50 +0200 |
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Leo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2011-05-22 19:48 +0800, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Since it uses overlays it can not extend outside of Emacs windows.
>> This is often quite awful.
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> I found the ability to make a frame without any decorations: no title
> bar, no border and scroll bar, no minibuffer etc. very useful. For
> example, one can use it to build a notification system that is even more
> powerful than the popular choice growl on OSX. I suspect it can also be
> used to draw dropdown menus.
Some things are missing in Emacs currently to make this useful. I
think we have discussed this earlier (or didn't I suggest some
enhancements then?).