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: How about making `set-minibuffer-window' obsolete? Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:42:32 +0200 Message-ID: <838s6ndjon.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4715"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 16 20:51:10 2021 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 1lMFig-00018j-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:51:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47340 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMFie-0006fa-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMEe4-0007g3-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMEe3-0001ka-4s; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4278 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lMEe0-0001RQ-EQ; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:42:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:16:35 +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:266504 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:16:35 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Does anybody have any objection to me making set-minibuffer-window > obsolete? > > It's defined in src/minibuf.c, but not used by any C function, and it's > not used by any Lisp in Emacs itself - the nearest to a use is a > commented out occurrence in lisp/textmodes/ispell.el. > > This function just sets the C variable minibuf_window. This variable is > defined (by comment) to be the minibuffer window of the selected frame. > So setting it to a random mini-window will cause nasty problems. > > Actually, I'd prefer just to remove the function entirely - but there's > always the chance it's being used by some external library. > > So, any objections? I'd object to obsoleting a command just because it can be dangerous when used unwisely. Emacs always gives you enough rope to hang yourself, and trusts you that you won't.