On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:59:28AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > | The minute the minibuffer becomes necessary, the game is over, collect > | your shoes, and go home ... > > Because you rather want a popup?
I want default usable interfaces that do not require book-learnin' Suitable visual display and feedback is an important rationale for the existence of dialogs. I'd love to see how you do "match whole words" in the minibuffer. > | I have never been able to use that interface, and it buys us precisely > | nothing, and costs a lot. > > Gets rid of the popup/dialog clutter. By replacing it with some clutter on the buffer instead, which : 1) is non-standard 2) cannot use the frontend's architecture 3) requires more code I don't know about you, but I do not fancy coding all the stuff like tab navigation etc. by hand. john
