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: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:47:49 +0000 Message-ID: References: <53833023-d959-07af-7611-aa2e0bdcc1bc@gmx.at> <0d14bfc4-8e8e-d3b9-e0e1-ee4bf2e6449d@gmx.at> <20201125210947.GB8228@ACM> <20201125215450.GC8228@ACM> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39136"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Andrii Kolomoiets , emacs-devel@gnu.org, martin rudalics , enometh@meer.net, Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 11:48:47 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 1kibJ1-000A1p-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:48:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kibJ0-0006VT-HC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kibIM-00065V-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:59790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kibIJ-0000x9-20; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:48:06 -0500 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 0ARAlqpL026987 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:47:52 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0ARAmPMJ007793; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:48:25 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org 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:259868 Archived-At: >> Now type C-x 8 RET SPACE RET. This sucks the open minibuffer over to >> F2, despite the C-r operation having nothing to do with the suspended >> operation in the minibuffer. > > This is normal again, C-x 8 RET starts an operation which uses the > minibuffer, and the cursor leaves the buffer in which you are and moves > to the miniwindow. As explained above, when an operation which > activates a minibuffer is used on a frame while other minibuffers are > active on another frame, they are moved to that frame. I honestly can't > see what's wrong with this. > > IMO the only other reasonable behavior is to make sure that _all_ > minibuffers are moved from frame F1 to frame F2 whenever one switches > from a frame F1 to a frame F2. This is not feasible with Emacs 21-27, > and still not feasible with Emacs 28. > I wrote too fast here: this is feasible with Emacs 28 (by setting minibuffer-follows-selected-frame to t, which is its default value), but there is no way to get the previous behavior of Emacs 21-27.