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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 20538@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 05:41:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83egmpnohs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mnly25v.fsf@gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 14:35:40 -0500
> From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
> 
> 
> I do not know how I got into this (sorry, I do not have a recipe to
> reproduce this either).  I have a frame I want to delete by running
> delete-frame.  Yet this only gives me the error message
> 
>   "Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame"
> 
> and delete-frame refuses to do its job.  What does this mean?

It means you tried to delete a frame that serves as a minibuffer for
another frame.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-09 19:35 bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame Roland Winkler
2015-05-10  2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-05-10 12:30 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-10 19:46   ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-10 20:17     ` Drew Adams
2015-05-11  3:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 10:08     ` martin rudalics
2015-05-11 17:03       ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-12  9:36         ` martin rudalics
2015-05-12 19:42           ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-13  7:32             ` martin rudalics
2015-05-13 15:11               ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-14 10:13                 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-16 19:16                   ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-19  9:42                   ` martin rudalics
2015-05-19 16:12                     ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-20  9:50                       ` martin rudalics

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