webber@cvl.UUCP (Robert E. Webber) (08/26/83)
Recently, I have been thinking about the problem of recieving messages
from background processes. Popping a window, as our newman.ml does,
is too annoying. Printing a message to the minibuffer is 1) too
confining and 2) prone to being missed when it just flickers by (I
usually run time.ml which often knocks messages from the minibuffer).
What I would like could take the form of 1) a minibuffer in which you
could move back to previous lines (thus a multi-line mini-buffer might
interact like shell.ml does) allowing you to keep a few lines on the
screen, some of which might contain messages or 2) the ability to set
up a buffer/window that is not clobbered by delete-other-windows or
pop-to-buffer (one might use its mode line to tell the user how many
lines are below the bottom line visible on the screen).
Are either of these feasible modifications of Gosling Emacs?
--------------------------------------------------- BOB
(in transit)