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: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:20:15 +0300 Message-ID: <838sca0w7k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201013190255.GA8896@ACM> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7670"; 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 Oct 13 21:21:00 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 1kSPr2-0001sw-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:21:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPr1-00070W-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPqF-0006TK-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPqE-0007ss-NX; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3948 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPqA-0004g5-Sv; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:20:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201013190255.GA8896@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:02:55 +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:257567 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:02:55 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Seeing as how a minibuffer often has a strong association with its frame > (e.g., C-x C-f opens a buffer in the same frame it was invoked from), > this shifting of minibuffers from one frame to another is confusing. Is it? It makes sure the minibuffer is on the selected frame, which is natural in many/most use cases. Forcing the user to go back to a non-selected frame _is_ IMO confusing and inconvenient, at least in the usual cases.