From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area. Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:03:49 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20201009163445.GB4027@ACM> <20201009203810.GC4027@ACM> <83imbi609a.fsf@gnu.org> <20201010103233.GB5662@ACM> <834kn25o6b.fsf@gnu.org> <20201010124446.GC5662@ACM> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-212064758-768685122-1602334535=:30126" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20562"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 15:05:21 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 1kREYq-0005GK-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44778 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kREYq-0001yj-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kREXa-0001PF-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:51664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kREXX-0006cW-N0; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@otaku.sdf.org [205.166.94.8]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 09AD3r1A014379 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:03:53 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09AD4FJJ021975; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:04:15 GMT In-Reply-To: <20201010124446.GC5662@ACM> Content-ID: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/10 08:36:48 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? 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_PASS=-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:257323 Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---212064758-768685122-1602334535=:30126 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: > When just the isearch is active, f10 does indeed work. When,=20 > additionally, C-x b is active on another frame, it throws the error=20 > "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer". This is=20 > surely correct. However, the isearch highlighting doesn't get removed=20 > in this error case. That is incorrect. > It's not removed because isearch is not aborted. You can continue your=20 isearch or abort it with C-g. That's a difference indeed: in earlier=20 Emacsen isearch would have aborted in this case. Which one is better is=20 not clear to me. >> Yet another similar use case is when you type "C-x 8 RET" during=20 >> Isearch: that reads the character's name/codepoint from the minibuffer. > > This goes wrong. With C-x b active on frame F1, move to F2, start an=20 > isearch, C-x 8 RET, use TAB completion to select a character and RET.=20 > This displays > > Switch to buffer (default xdisp.c): [Failing I-search: su=EF=BF=BD] > > on F2. On terminating the isearch and completing the C-x b action in=20 > F2's minibufer, the buffer switch has worked in frame F1. > It doesn't go wrong, it has moved the minibuffer from frame F1 to frame=20 F2. ---212064758-768685122-1602334535=:30126--