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: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers! Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:25:04 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20201013190255.GA8896@ACM> <838sca0w7k.fsf@gnu.org> <20201013195103.GB8896@ACM> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16487"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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 22:26:41 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 1kSQsb-0004Bp-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:26:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44598 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSQsa-0004hY-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSQrE-0003hW-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:57707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSQrA-0007ix-40; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 09DKP6cj000746 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:25:07 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09DKPTVv015422; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:25:29 GMT In-Reply-To: <20201013195103.GB8896@ACM> 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 = 2020/10/13 15:22:16 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:257579 Archived-At: > > If the command using the minibuffer is given on frame F1, and the > selected frame becomes F2, the minibuffer sometimes moves, sometimes > doesn't, depending on what the user does. For example, C-s in F2 doesn't > usually move the minibuffer, but it will if you use C-x 8 RET. This is > inconsistent. > You are confusing two things here: the minibuffer (for interactive use) and the echo area (for messages). C-s uses the echo area, C-x C-f and C-x 8 RET use the minibuffer. I agree with you on one thing: C-x 8 RET should raise a "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer" error in this case (when enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil, which is its default value). I'm not sure why it doesn't.