Re: Seperate Msg Window

>>>Chris Garrigues said:

 > I just enabled the separate msg window preference for the first time.  
It's
     a 
 > good start, but of course, I have a few comments.
 > 
 > The first is that the descriptions for the "Use separate Ftoc window" 
and
 > "Use separate Msg window" options are both incomplete in opposite ways.  
 > Both require restarting exmh and the Msg window can also only display a 
 > single message just as the ftoc can only display a single folder.
 > 
 > The second comment stems from the ability to only show one message.  The 
 > "Clip" option on the message "More..." menu feels very non-intuitive at 
this
      
 > point.  It would be nice if the window it displays and the Message 
Display
 > window were to be merged to use the same code base.  Once that were 
done, I
 > suspect we could easily evolve to a more intuitive way to display 
multiple
 > messages, probably based on how one clicks on the ftoc.
 > 
 > About a decade ago I started to try to merge that code, but this was in 
the
     days 
 > before anybody but Brent had access to CVS and at one point I got so far 
 > out of sync with what Brent was doing that I just tossed my code.  I 
think
 > I may have even changed jobs at the time or something.

Message "Clip" and the main message display share MsgShowInText.
But, exmh is loaded with single-folder and single-message dependencies.
You could probably finesse it by having a focus onto a window reset
the globals that store this state. But, it seems big.  Probably the
per message display is simpler to outwit.  I'm not sure it's worth it.

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