Re: Multi-line messages
On 5/1/06, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi(a)gnus.org> wrote:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> You can get multiline prompt and editing in the minibuffer with the
> rsz-minibuffer package, but that is probably not what you want.
Nope.
> It's also possible to resize the minibuffer/echo area window
> permanently with enlarge-window.
Hm... that's a possibility. Although it might be a bit fragile.
What I'm using this for is to display "electric" completions in the
To/Cc headers. The new ecomplete package tries to be as (un)obtrusive
as the completion you get in Firefox/Thunderbird. The traditional
Emacs way of doing this is by popping up new buffers, which I think is
too obtrusive for this kind of thing.
Tooltips might be a possibility.
Any reason that the iswitchb approach won't work? I'm pretty sure it
works in XEmacs.
(it grows the minibuffer to provide a big list of buffers which might
be completed -- I've seen a variant used with programming language
objects, as well).
best,
-tony
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