wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) wrote:
Why the hell does XEmacs still draw multiple 'windows' on top
of a single X
or MS window? Wouldn't life be much simpler if each emacs window was a
real window in the window system? Then you could use sane geometry
management to pack things, and use real paner widgets between them instead
of emulating them ourselves in lisp, etc, etc.
Glad to see that somebody actually feels the same way I do about this!
redisplay is reinventing the wheel in several other aspects (the background
pixmap management for instance) probably for historical reasons.
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