From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers! Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:13:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20201021191301.GD19276@ACM> References: <20201014163534.GB7651@ACM> <838sc8zqjj.fsf@gnu.org> <20201014184523.GC7651@ACM> <83y2k8y6qs.fsf@gnu.org> <20201014194904.GD7651@ACM> <83sgafy56d.fsf@gnu.org> <20201015180143.GA10229@ACM> <83wnzrwdy5.fsf@gnu.org> <20201021151945.GA19276@ACM> <80d593c0-21a9-436d-864c-83772f88065c@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9718"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 21 21:14:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kVJZ0-0002RA-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42558 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVJYz-0007Ri-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVJXn-0006sV-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:24533 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVJXk-0002FC-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 86586 invoked by uid 3782); 21 Oct 2020 19:13:01 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe159f6.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.89.246]) by localhost.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:13:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21686 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Oct 2020 19:13:01 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80d593c0-21a9-436d-864c-83772f88065c@default> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/21 15:13:02 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = FreeBSD 9.x or newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258248 Archived-At: Hello, Drew, thanks very much for eyeballing my English text. On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 09:49:36 -0700, Drew Adams wrote: > (Minor) > "Whilst" -> > "While" (Amerenglish) > "the minibuffer moves" -> > "the active minibuffer moves" > "in the frame the minibuffer was first opened in" -> > "in the frame where the minibuffer was first opened" > "on the frame it was first opened on" -> > "in the frame where it was first opened" > (And decide whether a minibuffer - and a window in > general, is in or on a frame. I don't know what the > convention might be.) > Consider splitting this sentence: > "An alternative behavior is available by customizing > 'minibuffer-follows-frame' to nil; here, the > minibuffer stays on the frame it was first opened on, > and you must switch back to this frame to continue or > abort the current command." I've made all of these adjustments now, thanks, with a window being "in" a frame. > Consider removing this gratuitous bit: "somewhat chaotic". OK, with the benefit of somebody else looking at it, that's too pejorative. I've changed it to "somewhat unsystematic", which I think is gentler, yet still gives a reason why the former behaviour is no longer available. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).