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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	56305@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
Subject: bug#56305: 29.0.50; 'yes-or-no-p' deselects minibuffer frame
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:06:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YtQlYVRObSCXl7x8@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1qujq1u9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Hello, Stefan.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:03:23 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Fselect_frame (or more precisely do_switch_frame) is a place where
> > the trouble occurs, or certainly was before my removal of the 53
> > lines focus redirecting/shifting code ~10 days ago.  That removed
> > code seems to be needed for correct frame switching with a
> > minibuffer-only frame, but in the middle of do_switch_frame doesn't
> > seem to be the optimal place for it.

> But the interactive calls have nil for `norecord`.

Some of them might not.  I don't see how that observation relates to my
quoted paragraph, though.

> >> It seems clear to me, for example, that when called with a non-nil
> >> `norecord` (like in the mode-line code), `Fselect_window` should never
> >> cause any change to the focus redirection (or the focus itself).
> >> And neither should it call things like `resize_mini_window`, I think.

> > It would be a mistake to couple focus switching with NORECORD, something
> > which is only coincidentally tied to the focus.

> Currently `norecord` is the flag used to indicate that this is an
> "internal" `select-window` call, typically part of something like
> `with-selected-window` or `save-window-excursion`, which seem like good
> candidates to use the more "bare bones" select-window semantics (whose
> difference in semantics I don't fully comprehend, to be honest, so
> hopefully, this discussion will lead to doc (or at least comment)
> changes to describe those differences).

I was thinking about some primitive such as select_window_no_focus,
and/or select_frame_no_focus (although do_switch_frame pretty much is
this, now).  These would do what s-w and s-f do, but rigorously
refrain from setting the focus, redirecting the focus in any frame,
raising a frame, and so on.

> There might indeed be other calls to `select-window` that specify the
> `norecord` arg for some other reason, so maybe linking the two that
> way is not a good idea, I don't know.

I think it is a fundamentally bad idea.  There's no conceptual
connection between recording a position in a window list and changing a
window manager's focus.

> > Neither can I, but Martin's spent quite a few years analysing these
> > things.  The mechanisms of these bugs, and their connection with that
> > 2008 patch are likely involved and complicated.

> Yes, I didn't mean to say they didn't exist, just that I wasn't able
> to see them.

OK.

> > The current state of affairs is that Emacs 28 is unusable to some
> > people who prefer a separate minibuffer frame (in particular, Drew
> > Adams) and it may well be worth our while to identify the current
> > bugs and fix them.

> As you might know, I'm in that same boat :-)

Ah, good.  ;-)  Are you able and willing to formalise bugs in this area,
so that we can set about eradicating them?  As you know, I only rarely
run Emacs on a window manager.

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-17 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-29 17:54 bug#56305: 29.0.50; 'yes-or-no-p' deselects minibuffer frame martin rudalics
2022-06-29 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30 10:35   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-30 20:32   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-02 11:38   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-03  8:16     ` martin rudalics
2022-07-03 16:09       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-03 16:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-04 19:10           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-04 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-04 19:43               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-05  2:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-05 15:59                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-05 16:24                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-05 17:09                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-06 17:04                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-06 17:29                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-06 18:16                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-06 18:34                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-06 18:58                             ` Andreas Schwab
2022-07-06 19:05                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-06 19:09                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-07-06 19:22                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-07 17:25                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-07 18:57                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-08 21:03                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-09  2:15                                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-07  7:55                             ` martin rudalics
2022-07-07  9:12                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-08  7:01                                 ` martin rudalics
2022-07-08 10:55                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-08 11:55                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 18:31                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-09  8:36                                       ` martin rudalics
2022-07-08 21:45                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-07-09  8:35                                     ` martin rudalics
2022-07-09 10:57                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-10  8:07                                         ` martin rudalics
2022-07-10 11:34                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-10 11:47                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 12:41                                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-10 13:01                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 16:13                                             ` Drew Adams
2022-07-10 16:55                                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-11  7:45                                             ` martin rudalics
2022-07-11 11:12                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12  7:33                                                 ` martin rudalics
2022-07-12 16:02                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-11 16:22                                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-11 16:43                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-11 17:15                                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-11 17:33                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-11 17:34                                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11 20:09                                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-11 17:06                                                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11 20:01                                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-12  7:35                                                 ` martin rudalics
2022-07-12 14:56                                                   ` Drew Adams
2022-07-16  7:06                                                     ` martin rudalics
2022-07-16 20:34                                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-18  7:36                                                     ` martin rudalics
2022-07-18 14:44                                                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-19  8:09                                                         ` martin rudalics
2022-07-19 16:04                                                           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-16 23:39                                                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 11:29                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-17 14:03                                                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-17 15:06                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-07-18  7:37                                                     ` martin rudalics
2022-07-18 14:58                                                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-18 15:58                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-18 16:12                                                           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-18 16:50                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19 20:48                                                               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 12:17                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 14:54                                                                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 16:02                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-21 15:07                                                                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-21 15:58                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19  8:09                                                         ` martin rudalics
2022-07-07 15:54                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-04 19:46             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-04 19:59               ` Alan Mackenzie

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