On 2006-10-31, Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's menu, and the binding is there, under "Bindings for message boxes >> and queries". > Right. But what does it do? It's different from F3, because it gives me > different completions, but I can't figure out why.
Actually, it's supposed to read "it's not a menu" there. It's just a message box. Message boxes don't have completions, or an input line even. > I think what surprised me was that the "error" message had state. I expected > it > to be a transient window, popping up the error, then going away. What's that got to do with transients? Transients are simply something that are supposed to be short-lived, no matter how they're closed. > How was I supposed to know that > a small status screen on the bottom, which the window manager happily popped > some things over (F3 & F12 windows), was the active item I was blocked on? >From it obscuring other windows? Perhaps the error messages could be more colourful, but... you can't really do editor-like hiding of the message, unless constantly preserve space for the messages, in each frame and screen. And I don't want that waste of space. Maybe if it was easier to do translucency, you could have windows that don't completely obstruct neither input nor output. -- Tuomo
