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 19:14:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83d01kzswk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201013190255.GA8896@ACM> <838sca0w7k.fsf@gnu.org> <20201013195103.GB8896@ACM> <20201013204408.GC8896@ACM> <831ri027vz.fsf@gnu.org> <20201014160240.GA7651@ACM> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40491"; 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 18:21:25 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 1kSjWl-000APS-Td for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:21:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57886 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSjWk-00077Z-Oa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSjQ0-00078y-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSjQ0-0002iZ-CS; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1226 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSjPz-0005ak-Lu; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:14:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201014160240.GA7651@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:02:40 +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:257654 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:02:40 +0000 > Cc: ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > 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? > > Well, my patch _does_ fix the inconsistency, by tying each minibuffer > absolutely to the frame it acts on. It never occurred to me, until a > few days ago, that anybody might find that strategy strange or awkward. To me, consistent behavior would be to switch to the mini-window of the selected frame. So if we cannot reconcile our preferences, maybe we should have a user option to decide which behavior to choose. > Otherwise, to fix this inconsistency in Isearch (when there's a > minibuffer open in another frame), we must either always pull the > minibuffer into the Isearch frame, or never. I don't think I follow: Isearch doesn't use the minibuffer.