Re: Multi-line messages

Lars> Hm... that's a possibility. Although it might be a bit Lars> fragile. Yes, that's why I'm _not_ doing handstands and generally being totally enthusiastic about the idea. Lars> What I'm using this for is to display "electric" completions Lars> in the To/Cc headers. The new ecomplete package tries to be Lars> as (un)obtrusive as the completion you get in Lars> Firefox/Thunderbird. The traditional Emacs way of doing Lars> this is by popping up new buffers, which I think is too Lars> obtrusive for this kind of thing. Lars> Tooltips might be a possibility. But not on TTYs. I don't know how hard an automatically resizing echo area would be to implement, but I'll push it on the task stack for that case alone. For display-only on GUI, how about using the top gutter? You can put a string there just as easily as a tab control (in fact, the way we put the tab control there is in a bag on a kludge ... ahem, in a glyph on an extent on an empty string). Another possibility would be a pop-up menu, but that's rather heavy in its default form. A custom dialog would be possible, too, but might be a lot of work. (One issue is that getting the pixel geometry right, especially the positioning, is quite kludgy.) -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.