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 18:34:23 +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 1205170512 23842 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 17:35:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:35:12 +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 18:35:37 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 1JYluE-000299-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYltg-0003Q4-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYltS-0003MH-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYltP-0003Lp-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYltP-0003Lm-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYltO-0007Lb-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:30 -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 1JYltO-0008Jq-IR for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYltL-0007Kh-DZ for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:30 -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 1JYltL-0007KC-2o for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.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 BCC6E34C3E; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:34:24 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Then, it's off to RED CHINA!! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 09 Mar 2008 17\:48\:02 -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:92075 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21517 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. 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."