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To:	Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Subject: Re: saved replacement texts? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:11:38 EST."
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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:41:55 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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|  Automatic placement of new windows probably isn't the default because
| Pike didn't have a good way to do it, especially in sam (it's also
| somewhat against the model). I don't really see how to fix that.

Just for the sake of argument, he could have done what rms did with
emacs, namely replace the current window with the new one.  (Maybe I'm
just hopelessly tainted, but I think a number of emacs' features are
reasonable. :-)

In another instance, if you arrange to get a new toplevel window then
placement is a window manager function, rather than an application
function.  (Insert Rob's complaints about X window managers here. :-)

By the way, maybe we should have a plan-9-wanna-be BOF at usenix?