Re: Development Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:21:29 +0100 (CET)
> From: xenodasein@tutanota.de
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > If you show the code that you tried...
> 
> My example was finding out that I couldn't create a minibuffer frame
> from terminal, either to use it as the second background frame in the
> terminal, or possibly to display it in a second terminal or GNU Screen
> side by side.

How did you try doing that?  Can you show some simple Lisp that I
could try?

> > No, there should be (ideally) only one set. Applications should be
> > free from dealing with this distinction as much as possible.
> 
> IIRC there are other features like (images? svg? videos?)
> that which suggest that terminal and graphical interfaces are already
> diverged and have different capabilities, as they should, by their
> nature.  Otherwise, why have functions like "display-graphic-p"?

For the few situations where the ideal is not really achievable.  But
that those exist doesn't mean we gave up on the ideal, just that we
are realists.