Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> > This description of the functionality you want is markedly different
> > than the way I described what you wanted last week. Yet you haven't
> > clarified either description.
> >
> > (My description required virtual (synthetic) keystrokes and some
> > method of window pairing, this description creates virtual windows.)
>
> Ok, here is how the follow-mode like feature would work:
>
> Imagine an application running in a window, say vi editor showing a long
> file. Imagine having an extra button on the window toolbar. When you press
> this button another new window pops. This window shows the part of the
> long file immediately below the last line displayed in the former window.
> Now you can place the new window with the mouse where you like. The new
> window generated in this manner has the same color as the first window
> since they show the same application and scrolling from one window moves
> you to the second window.
>
> Is this not a good enough description on how the feature would be
> implemented? If something is unclear please don't hesitate to mail me.
> I hope my explanation is satisfactory.
>
> Why would I want such a feature? There are many editors out there but not
> all have follow-mode. As I already said, right now it is impossible for
> two or more windows (here by windows I mean real windows with frames, not
> windows within a window) to interact via follow mode, and this is true of
> any application including Emacs.
I don't believe what you are now proposing is possible. When an X
application places text in a window, it does it by relative pixel
position. The window manager has no way to get in-between the
application and X at this level.
> Best Reagrds,
>
> Neil
>
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Received on Mon Jun 15 1998 - 13:59:14 BST