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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Two questions about latest releases of emacs
Keywords: emacs highlighting windows
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Date: 17 Nov 88 22:01:52 GMT
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jr@PIZZA.BBN.COM gently pointed out to me in private mail:

|In article <27852@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> you write:
|>In article <1958@hoqax.UUCP> david@hoqax.UUCP (DAVID LUBINSKY) writes:
|>>2) Is there any version of gnuemacs running under some window sytem
|>>where gnuemacs windows are actually windows belonging to the window
|>>system, not just portions of the original screen.
|>
|>Native window-level support for various window systems:
|>
|...
|
|I think you missed the point.  I think he means when you open a window
|on a file in emacs, it opens a new window with the X (or whatever)
|server, rather than reallocating space withint the one window it is
|already inside of.  I do believe that the feature he wants is coming
|in version 19, at least for X.
|-- 
|/jr
|jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr

jr is right, of course.  And when those hooks are created for X, it
will be more straightforward for implementors of interfaces to other
window systems to provide similar support.