William> Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se&gt; writes: >> >> William> Why the hell does XEmacs still draw multiple 'windows' on William> top of a single X or MS window? Wouldn't life be much William> simpler if each emacs window was a real window in the William> window system? Then you could use sane geometry William> That could be done easily in the XEmacs C code... you wouldn't notice any William> difference. William> Create a new frame? That's not what I meant. The William> multiple X windows would still be 'inside' the XEmacs William> frame, just the internals would not be such a pain in the William> ass. But right now a XEmacs only has one X window that William> it draws on - the modelines, scrollbars, etc, are just William> drawn or placed within this window and raised on top of William> the real window. I get it. It sounds like the right thing to do to me, but I know zilch about X programming. Ray