Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 18:09 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > In any case, this one is serious. No Newbie would think of deleting > .lyx/session just get LyX up. Yes. since the session file could be corrupted by other means it should be read in a fault tolerant way, i.e. if something invalid is en

Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Levon wrote: On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:29:54PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:30:41AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. I

Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-19 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:29:54PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:30:41AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > >>>Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for > >>>no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. > >>I agre

Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:30:41AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. I agree, but having a editable status line is kind of peculiar. Any decent editor seem

Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:30:41AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > >Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for > >no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. > > I agree, but having a editable status line is kind of peculiar. Any decent editor seem to have it. In

Re: Minibuffer problems in 1.5 svn

2006-11-18 Thread Bo Peng
Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. I agree, but having a editable status line is kind of peculiar. The minibuffer is not accessible by M-x when no buffer is loaded. I have proposed to remove this sho

Re: minibuffer

2004-04-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:17:14PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I'll test a bit. Would be kind. I can hardly debug anything as it stands right now. Andre'

Re: minibuffer

2004-04-06 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | As far as I can tell minibuffers are broken in both front ends. > | xforms 'recognizes' the terminating key as a command and | inserts a line break, > | qt 'works', but does not display the command. > | This is the same bug as the 'S&R does not work

Re: minibuffer completion: Qt & xforms compared

2003-04-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: > Should I change to the right arrow key for xforms also? I see that you have fixed the Qt frontend. Thanks. -- Angus

Re: minibuffer completion: Qt & xforms compared

2003-04-06 Thread Angus Leeming
On Saturday 05 April 2003 5:56 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:36:20PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > What is the rationale behind the use of different keys to trigger this > > for the two frontends? xforms uses TAB whereas Qt uses the right arrow > > key; something I found out

Re: minibuffer completion: Qt & xforms compared

2003-04-05 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:36:20PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > What is the rationale behind the use of different keys to trigger this for > the two frontends? xforms uses TAB whereas Qt uses the right arrow key; > something I found out only by looking at the source! 'Tab' is the key used for

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:54:11PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > While I agree with the separate implementation you suggest I don't > like the waste of screenspace experienced with KDE/Gnome/Mozilla > because they are afraid of having two separate widgets share the same > space -- especially when the

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > I don't think they are visible at once. There is or the message bar or > > the input buffer visible (well they have the same design so you won't > > notice. But they use the same space. D

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > I don't think they are visible at once. There is or the message bar or > the input buffer visible (well they have the same design so you won't > notice. But they use the same space. Do you say you want to make that > part higher and

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-14 Thread Juergen Vigna
John Levon wrote: > I don't think you understand: they are two entirely separate UI objects, > both visible at once. I don't think they are visible at once. There is or the message bar or the input buffer visible (well they have the same design so you won't notice. But they use the same space. Do

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-12 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:28:56AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > I don't understand really what problems you have with this? > Why do you need two different objects? Mainly because commingling (oooh yeah) two different purposes into the one buffer is really bad UI > Isn't it possible to > do th

Re: minibuffer design problems

2002-07-12 Thread Juergen Vigna
John Levon wrote: > I guess we also need something to get the "information" string > (I assume this is the keyboard shortcut list string ?) > > It's quite wrong IMHO for the core code to push /anything/ to the > MiniBuffer: it should only push to the StatusBar > > Note such a scheme still alllo

Re: Minibuffer

2002-04-29 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-Apr-2002 Angus Leeming wrote: > With emacs-bindings, type M-x Well I guess with cua too. But I guess that won't be the solution :) Jug -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen VignaE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N

Re: Minibuffer

2002-04-29 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 29 April 2002 9:21 am, Marco Morandini wrote: > I apoligize for writing this, but > I'm no more able to write commands in the Minibuffer. > It never gets activated. > I'm the only one with this problem? > Lyx from cvs, xforms 0.. > > Thanks for your help, > > Marco Morandini With em

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-19 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > Click on the minibuffer and leave the mouse nearby > > fi > > fill in the gaps for file-open to appear but history browser stays up > > what do you mean "fill in the gaps" exactly ? y

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:23:55PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > What version of xforms are you using? I use 0.88. > > 0.89.0. I could change to 0.88 and try again, but the mouse grab stuff is > actually raw X. I'd suspect that first. Well what do you think xforms is written in ? I know exa

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 18 January 2002 3:56 pm, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 18-Jan-2002 Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Just to confuse the situation further: doing everything EXACTLY as Jürgen > > does, here everything works fine! And I repeated this several times. > > What version of xforms are you using? I use

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 18-Jan-2002 Angus Leeming wrote: > Just to confuse the situation further: doing everything EXACTLY as Jürgen > does, here everything works fine! And I repeated this several times. What version of xforms are you using? I use 0.88. Jug -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 18 January 2002 3:32 pm, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 18-Jan-2002 John Levon wrote: > >> - Start new lyx > >> - New Buffer > >> - Alt-x tabui > > ^^^ John, the first tab here is a string. He's trying to get tabular-insert > > the only odd thing I see is that doesn't close t

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 18-Jan-2002 John Levon wrote: >> - Start new lyx >> - New Buffer >> - Alt-x tabui > ^^^ > > the only odd thing I see is that doesn't close the browser. You do exactly what I do? What I see is that after I type "i" the browser is not closed and remains open also after I type .

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:07:14PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > - Start new lyx > - New Buffer > - Alt-x tabui ^^^ the only odd thing I see is that doesn't close the browser. regards john -- "Lots of companies would love to be in our hole." - Scott McNealy

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 18-Jan-2002 John Levon wrote: > I can't see this in the old or new versions. Well this is easy to reproduce. - Start new lyx - New Buffer - Alt-x tabui And have a look what happens. Jug -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Click on the minibuffer and leave the mouse nearby > fi > fill in the gaps for file-open to appear but history browser stays up what do you mean "fill in the gaps" exactly ? your very first keypress should close the browser

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:50:50PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > why pick on me? My changes to your source were, in the end, minimal. I have > > no clue at all when it coms to raw X. ok the virtual desktop thing is in the old version as well. obviously the pointer grab is not grabbing it prop

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 18-Jan-2002 Angus Leeming wrote: > why pick on me? My changes to your source were, in the end, minimal. I have > no clue at all when it coms to raw X. Well I don't know who did it, but I have also an example of the new behaviour. It's good that now if you do get a list up (very good), but

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > In fact it does such a good job of stealing the mouse, and apparently > focus also, that the history browser stays sticky across all my > virtual screens and I can't use most of the other other windows. this is because the pointer grab

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:37:08PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > why pick on me? My changes to your source were, in the end, minimal. I have > no clue at all when it coms to raw X. So Allan, is this new or not ? I certainly didn't notice problems with the old code ... john -- "Lots of compan

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 18 January 2002 2:24 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > Here's a good trick: > > > > Click on the minibuffer and leave the mouse nearby > > I'm having real problems with similar things. lyx grabbed my keyboard at one point, >

Re: Minibuffer history box craziness

2002-01-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Here's a good trick: > > Click on the minibuffer and leave the mouse nearby I'm having real problems with similar things. lyx grabbed my keyboard at one point, eventually got it back though ... Angus ? john -- "Lots of compa

Re: minibuffer changes ++

2001-04-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > | > | > I have committed my changes to the minibuffer code, some of this will | > | > need some tweeking, but most is fine.

Re: minibuffer changes ++

2001-04-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > > | > I have committed my changes to the minibuffer code, some of this will > | > need some tweeking, but most is fine. > | > > | > -- > | > Lgb > | is that on anoncvs.no.ly

Re: minibuffer changes ++

2001-04-17 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > I have committed my changes to the minibuffer code, some of this will | > need some tweeking, but most is fine. | > | > -- | > Lgb | is that on anoncvs.no.lyx.org? no such thing... -- Lgb

Re: minibuffer changes ++

2001-04-17 Thread Garst R. Reese
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > I have committed my changes to the minibuffer code, some of this will > need some tweeking, but most is fine. > > -- > Lgb is that on anoncvs.no.lyx.org? Garst