From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25521: 26.0.50; After (make-frame '((name . "foo"))) (select-frame-by-name "foo") doesn't see the frame Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:39:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83zi9d7hf9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a8agrwwx.fsf@gmail.com> <83lgtz3jdf.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvefk54q.fsf@gmail.com> <87inp2u2nn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87r33qm4lh.fsf@gmail.com> <87a8adubtz.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <877f5hq0tl.fsf@gmail.com> <87ziids1j2.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83vat10wdp.fsf@gnu.org> <87wp7ukw8x.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <5955F510.5040101@gmx.at> <87efrr6rgx.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <59A95A75.8040100@gmx.at> <87bmmu7czr.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <59A980A5.9010705@gmx.at> <87zi9if9ux.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <59CB5D18.2090806@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506692420 11311 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 13:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25521@debbugs.gnu.org, qwxlea@gmail.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 15:40:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxvWU-0002NU-D2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxvVy-00044s-TH; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1271 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dxvVx-000530-CB; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:39:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <59CB5D18.2090806@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:11:04 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:137593 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:11:04 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: Eli Zaretskii , 25521@debbugs.gnu.org, > qwxlea@gmail.com > > Anyway, I'd proceed as follows: > > (1) Install the xterm.c and w32term.c patches on the release branch. > > (2) Ask Alex to play around with the settings. If Alex can use the > variable to change the behavior from bad to good and back and there > are no problems with other users, let's consider this part as done > and the bug closed. > > (3) Install the ‘select-frame-by-name’ patch on the release branch. > > The reason why I think that (3) is good to have despite of (1) is that > functions would behave reasonably well on systems where the user sets > the timeout to zero. Thus people who, for some reason, cannot or do not > want a larger timeout have a fallback. Differently put: A timeout of > zero should work well as default too. > > But let's wait for Eli to make a decision. Maybe I'm missing some downsides of these suggestions, but they sound fine to me. Please go ahead, and thanks.