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[A.J. Rossini]

On 5/1/06, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi at gnus.org> wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > You can get multiline prompt and editing in the minibuffer with the
> > rsz-minibuffer package, but that is probably not what you want.
>
> Nope.
>
> > It's also possible to resize the minibuffer/echo area window
> > permanently with enlarge-window.
>
> Hm...  that's a possibility.  Although it might be a bit fragile.
>
> What I'm using this for is to display "electric" completions in the
> To/Cc headers.  The new ecomplete package tries to be as (un)obtrusive
> as the completion you get in Firefox/Thunderbird.  The traditional
> Emacs way of doing this is by popping up new buffers, which I think is
> too obtrusive for this kind of thing.
>
> Tooltips might be a possibility.

Any reason that the iswitchb approach won't work?  I'm pretty sure it
works in XEmacs.
(it grows the minibuffer to provide a big list of buffers which might
be completed -- I've seen a variant used with programming language
objects, as well).

best,
-tony

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