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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 7cfe2dc: In edebug in GUIs, move focus to the selected frame.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:21:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181019192132.GB6639@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7eidsqns.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

Hello, Stefan.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 15:07:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I thought about that, but in the end decided that could be a bit heavy
> > for when information is only being displayed, i.e. in
> > edebug-trace-display.

> If the intention is only to display the code shouldn't use pop-to-buffer
> but display-buffer.

The doc string of display-buffer is a bit of a heavy read at this time
of night.  ;-)

> > This bit of the code surely originates from the time before frames were
> > implemented.

> [ Probably, but since most Emacs users don't actually make use of multiple
>   frames, a lot of code written much more recently also suffers from the
>   same kinds of "outdated" assumptions.  ]

Most Emacs users restrict themselves to just one frame?  Ouch!  I
couldn't work like that!

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-19 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181019175416.10874.88992@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20181019175418.27D6920407@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-10-19 17:58   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 7cfe2dc: In edebug in GUIs, move focus to the selected frame Stefan Monnier
2018-10-19 18:49     ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-19 19:07       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-19 19:21         ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2018-10-19 19:39           ` Davis Herring
2018-10-19 19:50             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-19 21:12           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-20  9:41             ` Alan Mackenzie

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