From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How about making `set-minibuffer-window' obsolete? Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:24:29 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18065"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 00:25:54 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 1lMJ4T-0004bC-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:25:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMJ4S-00067B-7r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMJ3B-0005BM-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:23103 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lMJ3A-00047P-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 48030 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Mar 2021 23:24:29 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe1520c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.82.12]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:24:29 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 10313 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 2021 23:24:29 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:266511 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 19:00:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This function just sets the C variable minibuf_window. > Reminds me: any hope we can get rid of this variable > (and just always use `XFRAME (selected_frame)->minibuffer_window)` instead?) I've been thinking about that quite a lot in my recent struggles with src/minibuf.c. minibuf_window doesn't seem to fulfil much of a purpose. > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).