At 02:37 PM 8/10/99 +0200, Didier Verna wrote:
1/ the gutter tabs doesn't seem to be updated properly when you
have several
windows. To reproduce, do this:
- find two files, say `tata' and `toto'.
- C-x 2 (both windows are displaying toto)
- C-x b tata (or select toto in the gutter)
- C-Tab. The gutter is properly updated
- C-Tab again. The gutter is not updated anymore.
This works ok for me. There are still some redisplay glitches so I believe
you are seeing something.
2/ I was a bit confused at first by the fact that there's only one
gutter for
all windows, not one per window. It seems to act like the buffers menu
whereas
I'd expected it to behave like bury-buffer which looks a bit more
intuitive
since the widgets give the appearance of a stack of sheets of paper.
The gutter is notionally associated with the frame like the toolbar is.
Others have mooted having a per window gutter. This would present some
layout problems but would not be too hard I don't think.
3/ The presence of the scratch buffer in the gutter seems to be
somewhat
random ?
As is the presence of the scratch buffer anyway. I've tried to code round
its randomness but its kind of hard.
Otherwise, that's a nice piece of work, Andy.
Good.
You can put *anything* in the gutter area. It would be nice for people to
come up with a few ideas of what would be useful. The obvious candidate is
a progress-gauge in the bottom gutter area with a stop button. I was
thinking of something like with-progress-gauge so that it would only be
visible for the scoped duration. Other candidates might be:
isearch using a combo-box or edit field.
windows explorer like functionality using tree-view widget
errr.....
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd