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From: carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Emacs and wind
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Date: 7 Jun 90 22:10:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:29 am  May 25, 1990 by russell@glencoe.turing.ac.uk in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.emacs */
/* ---------- "Call for discussion: Emacs and wind" ---------- */
[ ... ] To get the ball rolling here are a couple of suggestions:

 + A Mouse interface that doesn't preclude keyboard input while the
   mouse is in use.

 + A similar facility for a Menu interface; allowing the mouse to talk
   to Emacs while you've got a menu up and are mousing around over the
   selections.
/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.emacs */

One thing to keep in mind is that Epoch, the multi-X-windowing version of
GNU-emacs provides a useable platform for testing such ideas. 3.2 will
support the first of you suggestions, and could support the second with a
tiny amount of work (changing the event mask). Both the FSF and myself have
learned many interesting things from Epoch, and hopefully that will continue.


Alan M. Carroll                Barbara/Marilyn in '92 :
carroll@cs.uiuc.edu            + This time, why not choose the better halves?
Epoch Development Team         
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll