Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.05.2020 23:05, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Which capabilities are you referring to more exactly here?  I'm not too
> familiar with the details, so please forgive me if this is obvious.

Switching between buffers using a mouse. Well, I mean, we do have a menu 
for that, but... Is that really better than fuzzy matching in the 
minibuffer?

OTOH, we don't have fuzzy matching by default either. Hmm.

> I have never thought about it, but I personally think it's a very good
> idea.  In combination with that, simple changes like giving it a border
> or a different background, would also help make it more visible.

Yup.

> One frequent annoyance for me in more "modern" software is that the
> popups hide the thing they are about.  For example, a "Search and
> replace" dialog box positioned on top of the text it matches, so you
> have to manually move the dialog box around to see what you're doing.
> I think we should try to avoid that, at least by default, so maybe the
> top positioning is a better default than in the center.

It could probably be configurable with little effort.

One big improvement I expect from such a feature personally is no more 
jumping of windows when the minibuffer goes multiline.

> I have never used them.

I install them occasionally, to see how things change over time.

> Do you mean something like this (found on a
> quick search)?
>
> https://flight-manual.atom.io/using-atom/images/goto.png
>
> Or could you provide a better screenshot or video of that?

Some other examples:

https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/docs/editor/editingevolved/symbol.png

Or: https://yann-leguilly.gitlab.io/img/no-member_vs_code/settings.webp

Or: 
https://vscode.rocks/static/fe22cb8c64e112b3acd1b9e6595bc498/0d2bd/file_search.png