From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: don provan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in Date: 05 Jul 2005 00:12:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120547697 13572 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2005 07:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 09:14:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dphd3-0007z0-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:14:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpheI-0002sX-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:15:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 02:12:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.5.243.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-IDiL16ifqGrXTfilGCSEaJp5Ixyf21kdkkydl1HwiGkMl+KPLeIwovbUoTMvpCahEc44Q3a+f3ZGv0j!75lu4MR/TdieweB3C2aXX67WXw6I5xVqxot5L3EZnuz7b/sf Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132321 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27797 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27797 LENNART BORGMAN writes: > From: don provan > > I think the original poster expected to be able to do two > > file-find's at the same time, one in each minibuffer of the two > > frames. > > Would not the behaviour the original poster expected be normal on a > windowing system? Yes, I suppose it would be, and I'm not sure I'd want to defend Emacs's behavior too strongly. But Emacs is, I would claim, primarily a keyboard entry based editor, so the emphasis is on a single point of data entry rather than visual consistency. So I'm not too distressed by the inconsistency with typical windowing systems, although it wouldn't surprise me if the reasons for being that way are primarily historical. There are some weird and wonderful things going on in the minibuffer, so I wouldn't want to speculate on whether it would be reasonable to approach them differently. -don