Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes: If it relied on curses, it would be much easier to make the redisplay treat each Emacs `window' as a real window on whatever the window system is (GTK / X / mswin / tty), which would make it so that you could get rid of the current scrollbar placement code and let a geometry manager do it, etc. I think that if you created new device methods for create_window, move_window, set_window_size, set_window_scrollbar_policy, perhaps a few more, then the redisplay mechanism would just have to worry about drawing text for _1_ window, and you would have a new mechanism for managing the window placement, etc. I would be willing to help. I _really_ hate how the current redisplay handles all of this. -Bill P.