Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:04:29 +0000 address@hidden (Phillip Lord) wrote: 

PL> My thought, is what we need is a new GUI feature that I call
PL> "mini-window". Essentially, this would be like a current window (with
PL> all the features would expect -- point, buffer and so on). But it would
PL> differ from a current window in that: a) it would have no or few
PL> decorations -- no border, no scrollbars, no mode line and b) it's
PL> positioning would be wrt another window -- it would either be positioned
PL> at one of the cardinal positions of an existing window or it would be
PL> positioned wrt a marker or an overlay in an existing buffer. The latter
PL> would scroll with the main buffer, the former would be static.

For the (a) piece, see
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/140353 (discussion of a
just-the-text Emacs frame) that got some good results in X.

Ted