On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jeff Wheeler <jeffwhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
I also +1 for similar reasons. this would also fix the current jumpy feel
that a vertical split has when you use a minibuffer in the top window. I
find it visually disturbing for some reason when the text keeps jumping up
on me.
>
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> Jeff Wheeler
>
> Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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