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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:43:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jed4q2bete.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmyp6mpcz.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 10 Mar 2008 14\:01\:42 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> The intention of this function seems to be (compared to C-x 5 b) that
>>> the focus should stay in the original frame rather than go to the
>>> new frame.
>
>> Except that the current frame is unmapped, and thus made completely
>> invisible (not even iconified).  IMHO that the worst feature of that
>> function.
>
> Hmm.. the code does:
>
>     (make-frame-invisible (window-frame old-window))
>     (make-frame-visible (window-frame old-window))
>
> so it *shouldn't* stay invisible.

That didn't work when I tried it with fvwm2.  But in any case, it will
result in an annoying flicker.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-10 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09 18:00 display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string? Drew Adams
2008-03-09 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-09 22:06   ` Drew Adams
2008-03-10 17:16     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 17:19       ` Drew Adams
2008-03-10 17:59       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-11 20:24         ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 17:15   ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 17:34   ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-10 18:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-10 18:43       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-03-10  6:11 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10  6:22   ` Drew Adams
2008-04-06  0:13 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-06  2:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-06  7:52     ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07  0:51       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07  1:18         ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 16:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 16:14             ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 16:44               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 16:52                 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07 17:02                   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 17:06                     ` Drew Adams

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