some thoughts...
We really need to enance the minibuffer a bit. First of all it is very
wrong to have the minibuffer know about LyXfunc.
The LyXFunc should call the minibuffer not the other way around. Son a
sense the minibuffer should be a lot dumber that it is now.
What functions do we need in the minibuffer:
- clear the window
- set a message with or without a timeout.
- input user responses with a program given question text.
- when using the minibuffer to imput it should be
possible to upload a completion list, and also a
history list.
I also belive tat it should not be possible to use the mouse to
activate te minibuffer since tat require the minibuffer to know too
much.
class MiniBuffer {
...
public:
void clear();
void set(string const &, int timeout);
string const getInput(string const & question,
map<string> const & completion_list,
vector<string> const & history_list);
...
};
This also removes all bookkeeping from the Minibuffer, which is a good
thing.
If we really want something to happen if we click on te minibuffer, we
could do this by registring a callback function or using a signal. We
also need a way to register a way to cancel the ongoing input...
Lgb
