Re: [h-e-w] XEmacs' dialog.el or similar available for GNU Emacs?

[Jason Rumney]

Tuomas Salo <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I found a nice package in XEmacs: dialog.el. Amongst other things, it can
> open a popup window for searching/replacing.
> 
> I'm wondering if it's possible to make dialog.el work with GNU Emacs

I doubt it.

> or if there are some other similar extensions available. The
> minibuffer interface for searching and replacing is hard to use for
> some people, including me.

Please explain what makes the minibuffer interface hard to use in
comparison to a separate window that potentially obscures the text
you are searching for.  Perhaps there is something that could improve
it for you, but without knowing what it is that you find hard, I
cannot offer suggestions.


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Jason Rumney