From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <002401c8820f$7d6042c0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205174705 8157 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 18:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Drew Adams To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 19:45:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYmzI-0005Qo-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:44:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYmyj-0005ee-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:44:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYmy1-0005NK-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYmxy-0005Lw-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYmxy-0005Ls-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYmxy-0007Jx-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYmxx-0002vQ-G9 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYmxu-0007JB-9K for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYmxt-0007IT-V4 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4406834B1A; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:43:10 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: MERYL STREEP is my obstetrician! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 10 Mar 2008 14\:01\:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92085 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21520 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."