wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > 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. Good question -- I always wondered about that myself. Maybe parts of the code were inherited from FSF Emacs or Epoch or early Lucid, or simply badly written?