Re: Global bar to display global information

[Óscar Fuentes]

Jérémy Compostella <address@hidden> writes:

>>> With current trunk you can try (experimentally)
>>>
>>> (display-buffer
>>>  (get-buffer-create "foo")
>>>  '((use-side-window bottom 0) (pop-up-window-set-height . 1)))
>>>
>>> How you update the contents of foo is obviously entirely left to you.
>>
>> I played a bit using your code and got encouraging results; I'll see
>> what I can do in the next days, and post on emacs-devel if I make
>> something useful.
>>
> I made some tries on my side. The above three lines of code provides an
> interesting result. However, I have one important issue : when using the
> minibuffer with more than one line, the "foo" buffer size is increased
> and never come back to its original one line size.
>
> Do you get interesting result on your side ?

My "interesting" result is that eventually the `foo' buffer ends being
displayed on a regular window covering half the screen with its usual
modeline. That window wont go away easily (C-x 1 while the other window
is active has no effect).

I'm using a 1-month old Emacs, so maybe the above is due to bugs already
fixed.