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From: wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Capture frame, the first entry returned by (mouse-position)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:39:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NCBjq-v--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgexzw62.fsf@gnu.org>

Sep 17, 2022, 18:35 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:24:25 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>> Sep 17, 2022, 18:00 by eliz@gnu.org:
>>
>> >> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:58:49 +0300
>> >> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> >>
>> >> Just 'car (mouse-position)' should do.
>> >>
>> >
>> > That should have been '(car (mouse-position))', of course.
>> >
>> It is quite obvious, but then when you want to pass it to a function that requires
>> FRAME, do you pass it as a string? 
>>
>
> Why a string?  Just pass the value of '(car (mouse-position))'.
> That's the frame object those functions want.
>
I would like to pass it for making the initial frame, so cannot just call (car (mouse-position))
for frame in (set-frame-position frame nlft ntop).



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-17 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-17 17:25 Capture frame, the first entry returned by (mouse-position) wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-17 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 17:53   ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-17 17:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 18:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 18:24         ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-09-17 18:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 18:39             ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-09-17 18:57               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 18:41             ` Christopher Dimech
2022-09-17 18:59               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-17 22:06                 ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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