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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Frame visibility
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:35:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760my1m0k.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inr6lax7.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:37:08 +0100")

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> The Elisp manual says that a frame can be visible, invisible or
> iconified. Visible and iconified (a.k.a. minimized) are clear, but
> when exactly is a frame invisible?

AFAIU the manual, an invisible frame is just not displayed (...visible),
so it's like "iconified" but without an icon, I guess.  With other
words: something like minimizing implemented in Emacs.

> And what happens if I use `select-window' on a window that is
> displayed in an invisible window?

Why don't you just try it out (without any guarantee from my side, if
your whole computer gets invisible, I won't pay for it).


Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-29 12:37 Frame visibility Joost Kremers
2016-12-05 14:35 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-12-05 14:50   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-05 15:26   ` tomas

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