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: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area. Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:50:07 +0300 Message-ID: <831ri65jpc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201009163445.GB4027@ACM> <20201009203810.GC4027@ACM> <83imbi609a.fsf@gnu.org> <20201010103233.GB5662@ACM> <834kn25o6b.fsf@gnu.org> <20201010124446.GC5662@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4609"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 14:51:51 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 1kRELm-00015P-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:51:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRELl-00067d-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kREK8-0005NU-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kREK7-0005F7-Gp; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4069 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kREK6-0008La-K8; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:50:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201010124446.GC5662@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:44:46 +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:257321 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:44:46 +0000 > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > When just the isearch is active, f10 does indeed work. When, > additionally, C-x b is active on another frame, it throws the error > "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer". This is > surely correct. However, the isearch highlighting doesn't get removed in > this error case. That is incorrect. Is this different from what happened in versions of Emacs before 27.1? > > Another, perhaps more important, use case is when you type "M-s e" > > during Isearch: that enters the minibuffer to let you edit the search > > string. > > This works fine. Without the C-x b in another frame, it just works. > With the C-x b in the other frame it throws the "Command ... minibuffer" > error and removes the highlighting. > > > Yet another similar use case is when you type "C-x 8 RET" during > > Isearch: that reads the character's name/codepoint from the minibuffer. > > This goes wrong. With C-x b active on frame F1, move to F2, start an > isearch, C-x 8 RET, use TAB completion to select a character and RET. > This displays > > Switch to buffer (default xdisp.c): [Failing I-search: su�] > > on F2. On terminating the isearch and completing the C-x b action in > F2's minibufer, the buffer switch has worked in frame F1. Same question here. If Gregory's change doesn't make things worse than they were before Emacs 27.1, then I think we should install it. In the emacs-27 branch, please. Thanks.