From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers! Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:34:56 +0300 Message-ID: <831ri027vz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201013190255.GA8896@ACM> <838sca0w7k.fsf@gnu.org> <20201013195103.GB8896@ACM> <20201013204408.GC8896@ACM> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19582"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 16:42:39 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 1kShzC-0004zc-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:42:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55244 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kShzB-0001yB-Gj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kShre-0001Yd-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kShrY-00066F-Th; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3020 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kShrY-0005Ba-A5; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:34:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201013204408.GC8896@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:44:08 +0000) 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:257633 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:44:08 +0000 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > If the command using the minibuffer is given on frame F1, and the > > > selected frame becomes F2, the minibuffer sometimes moves, sometimes > > > doesn't, depending on what the user does. For example, C-s in F2 > > > doesn't usually move the minibuffer, but it will if you use C-x 8 > > > RET. This is inconsistent. > > > You are confusing two things here: the minibuffer (for interactive use) > > and the echo area (for messages). C-s uses the echo area, C-x C-f and > > C-x 8 RET use the minibuffer. > > Sorry, I meant the use of C-x 8 RET from within isearch. In that sense, > usually C-s will not suck in an active minibuffer, but it will if you > have to type foreign characters into your search string. This is > inconsistent. So maybe we should fix this inconsistency, not disable the switch to the selected frame where that is useful and expected?