On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Reiner Pope <reiner.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on making the layout of yi windows more flexible by
> the user (see Issue 348). Among other things, I would like to have my
> windows side-by-side as well as stacked on top of each other. My basic
> design has been to add a layout manager to the Yi.Tab.Tab datatype, which is
> responsible for dividing up the available space among the open windows.
Awesome!
> All 'Window's are regular. That is, remove 'isMini' from the 'Window'
> datatype.
> Create a new 'MiniWindow' type, which supports only the appropriate features
> (in particular, it can't access regular buffers)
> There is a global 'MiniWindow' for yi. Put it in to the 'Editor' datatype:
>
> data Editor = Editor { ... minibuffer :: MiniWindow ... }
I tend to look to Vim and Emacs for how these sorts of things should
work. Since they both have the same behavior, I definitely support
changing Yi to match that. Furthermore, this seems like the
appropriate implementation.
+1
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Jeff Wheeler
Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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