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Subject: Re: scrolling minibuffer? subwindow?
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Stephan Herrmann writes:

>Coming back on the glyphs-x thread: I think subwindows is a pretty neat
>feature, and I have been waiting for its re-implementation for a while
>(didn't post on this, because I clearly cannot volunteer in this matter).
>Definitely too late for 19.15???

  Yeah verily.  I played around with it a bit this weekend, but went
sailing all day saturday (34 degrees and pouring down rain! :) so didn't
get very far.

>As soon as subwindows were available again, I would work on an interface
>for tcl/tk to blend in with external-client plus subwindows.  (The
>external-client part is kind of working (not very comfortable yet)).  So,
>is there a schedule for subwindows?

  What would be great is a real elisp interface to something like a real
GUI toolkit, able to specify callbacks, etc.  Building on the Perl/Tk code
would be nice.  Either that, or we need better widgets, and the ability to
embed them in a buffer.  `widget' is cool now, but it would be nice to have
something like a _real_ listbox, tree control, etc.

-Bill P.

