From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 20538@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5554755A.3060609@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27022.80056.898164.21843@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
> Then your previous email telling me only about the function
> ediff-setup-windows-plain gives an ignorant user like myself already
> all the info he needs.
Well, in my first mail in this thread I wrote
>> I use
>>
>> (custom-set-variables
>> '(ediff-window-setup-function (quote ediff-setup-windows-plain)))
>>
>> which avoids that the control panel appears on a separate frame.
Hence I thought you would be already aware of the real nature of
`ediff-setup-windows-plain' ;-)
>> > Perhaps the error message could be changed to something like
>> >
>> > "Attempt to delete frame with a surrogate minibuffer for frame XYZ"
>
> Is the problem with the above that frames do not have
> selfexplanatory unique names? Oh well, too bad.
We could use (frame-parameter frame 'name) but it's not unique.
>> Maybe we should say in the documentation of `delete-frame' something
>> like
>>
>> A frame may not be deleted if its minibuffer serves as surrogate
>> minibuffer for another frame.
>
> Yes, thanks, that would be better than the current phrase. If the
> buzzword "surrogate" appears also in the corresponding section of
> the elisp manual, I might have never started this thread.
OK. Unless someone has a better idea I'll rewrite it that way.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-14 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-09 19:35 bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame Roland Winkler
2015-05-10 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-10 12:30 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-10 19:46 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-10 20:17 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-11 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 10:08 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-11 17:03 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-12 9:36 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-12 19:42 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-13 7:32 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-13 15:11 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-14 10:13 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2015-05-16 19:16 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-19 9:42 ` martin rudalics
2015-05-19 16:12 ` Roland Winkler
2015-05-20 9:50 ` martin rudalics
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