Re: just-the-text Emacs frame

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 28 May 2011 12:49:59 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 

TZ> I just want to display some text, nothing else.  How about this (based
TZ> on your code) to show some arbitrary text in a popup (no menus,
TZ> modeline, etc., just the buffer is visible)?  I think it will DTRT
TZ> whether the frame is shown already or not.  I can use this to show the
TZ> indicators, icons, and status messages.

Attached is emacs-panel.el, which does the above.  It support arbitrary
frames, each one showing a specific buffer and refreshing its content on
a timer with a function associated with that buffer.

There's an example in the commentary that shows how it's used.  It works
for me.  Let me know what you think; next I will start adding pieces to
this framework to implement each of the tasks I listed earlier.

Thanks
Ted

emacs-panel.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp