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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:16:20 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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| IMO. e.g., I think that 99% of the time the overlapping windows in 
| sam are useless. 

One thing that bothers me is that only the top window has focus, so
letting them peek out from under is unhelpful.  I wind up tiling them,
or just switching back and forth with button-3.  Multiple toplevel X
windows, are probably a better idea for something like sam.  Mxedit
does that, and it works pretty well.  Epoch doesn't do so well, mostly
because people do heavyweight blocking operations (like reading news!)
in one window which block the others; in emacs, since the windows are
in the same frame, it's more obvious that there is one thread of
control for the lot of them.

It's also annoying that moving a window is implemented by resizing,
which makes it hard to just move it without resizing.