From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:34:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83popji89w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57A84256.8030706@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:27:02 +0200)
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:27:02 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > In general, I prefer to
> > report the actual values whenever possible, especially when we have no
> > reason to hide the value from Lisp applications.
>
> Modulo the fact that, as I mentioned above, some application might want
> to use (not (frame-parameter frame 'minibuffer)) to check whether it is
> allowed to change the minibuffer window of an arbitrary frame.
>
> >> As mentioned before, removing the special treatment of the 'minibuffer'
> >> parameter in ‘frame-parameters’ would imply that Elisp code relying on
> >> the values we report currently might be broken in the future.
> >
> > And my suggestion to that was to fix that code, wherever we find it.
>
> frameset.el already fixes the code internally so we would have to revert
> those fixes. That's hairy. And I don't know how many times anyone else
> already has invented a workaround for all these idiosyncrasies.
So what is your suggestion for the course of actions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-31 18:12 About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter martin rudalics
2016-08-05 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-05 16:37 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-05 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-05 17:35 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-05 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-05 18:19 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-05 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-06 9:32 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-06 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-07 8:46 ` martin rudalics
2017-01-14 0:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2017-01-14 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-14 9:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2017-01-14 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-14 11:05 ` martin rudalics
2017-01-14 14:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2017-01-19 3:54 ` John Wiegley
2017-01-14 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2017-01-15 3:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-08-05 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-06 9:33 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-07 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-08 8:27 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-08 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-09 8:27 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-09 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-09 16:07 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-09 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-09 17:34 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-09 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-10 12:15 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-10 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-10 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-10 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-21 9:41 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-21 20:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-08-22 12:49 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-08-22 13:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-08-22 15:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-08-22 16:01 ` martin rudalics
2016-08-22 16:27 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-08-23 8:19 ` martin rudalics
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