From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: should frame names be unique? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <003d01c88b69$e16c0980$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <007001c88b92$1f99ac30$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <6FEC95CB-CC0A-4F60-A4FD-D35940E85607@mac.com> <000901c88c48$56ff1230$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206233280 9989 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2008 00:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 'Damon Permezel' , 'Emacs-Devel' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 01:48:30 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 1JdENw-0002mD-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdENL-0006sD-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdENH-0006s8-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdENG-0006rc-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdENF-0006rZ-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdENC-0000Ml-5q; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApAFANpF5UdMCrTo/2dsb2JhbACBW6VI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,540,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="16411481" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 22 Mar 2008 20:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.180.232]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id DDS71841; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 58B6B7F5D; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <000901c88c48$56ff1230$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:12:49 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:93222 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21662 Archived-At: >> This said, I wouldn't reject a patch that makes them unique, > I hope someone provides such a patch. If it were Lisp, not C, then I might. I already provided a solution that involves no C code. Feel free to improve it. But, yes, maybe doing it well in Elisp is going to be difficult. >> although I'd rather such a patch to only make them unique on a particular >> terminal, since I often access a single Emacs process from different >> terminals and would rather have most of my frames suddenly >> get all named "foo<2>" just because there's already a "foo" on some >> other terminal. > I can't speak to the case for terminals. I meant "terminal" in the technical sense used in Emacs. In my case, most of those "terminals" are X11 displays. Stefan