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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> For display-only on GUI, how about using the top gutter?  You can put
> a string there just as easily as a tab control (in fact, the way we put
> the tab control there is in a bag on a kludge ... ahem, in a glyph on
> an extent on an empty string).

Hm...  I've never actually used any of the gutter stuff.  :-)  Do you
have an easy example on how those are supposed to work?

> Another possibility would be a pop-up menu, but that's rather heavy in
> its default form.

Yeah; the interaction needs to be very quick and snappy for the idea
to work comfortably, and pop-up menus don't seem responsive enough.  I
think. 

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