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From: jpayne@rochester.ARPA (Jonathan Payne)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Bogus transient windows in Unipress
Message-ID: <21833@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 11:21:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 11:21:12 1986
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Reply-To: jpayne@rochtest.UUCP (Jonathan Payne)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Why isn't there a variable called "send-typeout-to-buffer".  When it's on
it creates a window and sends the output to a buffer (and it can still do
the stuff about remembering the previous context, and all), and when the
variable is off it just sends output to the screen the way the original
EMACS did.  Seems to me that most of the time THAT is the desired
behavior (sending just to the screen, until the user hits Space or
something).  Nobody really ever wants a list of the buffers to take up a
window.  If you want a dump of the keybindings so that you can print them
out, you turn the variable on and presto, you have a buffer full of
keybindings.  And the other 99% of the time you leave the variable off,
thus increasing the life expectancy of your keyboard as you no longer
feel the need to break something when your carefully laid out windows are
no longer what they were spozed to be.

That's my opinion, anyway ...