Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:26:44 +0300
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> On 10/12/2015 07:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > OK, then I guess having small frames is the way to go.  But then we'd
> > need to come up with some alternative for text-mode terminals.
> 
> In terminal, we won't be able to use the decorations anyway
> (right?).

On a TTY, there are no decorations, of course.  Worse,a frame you want
to display completely obscures all the other frames, which is
unacceptable for this kind of features.

> So if the Lisp interface for graphical-mode menus is the same as for
> terminal menus, we can create a menu-based popup implementation
> anyway.

Yes, the interface is the same: x-popup-menu.

> In that case, since it'll work everywhere, it would be a good first 
> step, while small frames can be left for later.

Right.