From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: delete-other-frames
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:07:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BD63D0.6000707@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58oghB6HjyPhgbvm03kekdoZQXrb4BVbnU4MFGAABjhzBXw@mail.gmail.com>
> Possibly related: from emacs -Q,
>
> C-x b * RET ;; create and switch to buffer "*"
> M-x ediff-buffers RET RET RET ;; ediff buffers "*" and "*scratch*"
> ;; Now attempt to close the main Emacs frame using the window manager
>
> This gives:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to delete a surrogate
> minibuffer frame")
[...]
> I've never been sure whether this deserves a bug report, or what
> should be the expected behaviour. FWIW when this happens my intention
> is usually to kill Emacs. In any case the error message isn't very
> user friendly.
The ediff Control Panel frame is an oddity. OT1H, for navigation, it
detracts user input from the main frame and OTOH uses the main frame's
minibuffer window for echoing. IMHO the Control Panel should appear on
the main frame by default. But I'm afraid that many users already got
used to the current behavior.
In any case this and similar scenarios show that "surrogate minibuffer
frames" should be of the minibuffer-only type.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 8:19 delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-23 14:09 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 17:56 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-23 18:31 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-23 19:55 ` delete-other-frames Richard Copley
2016-08-24 9:07 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2016-08-24 9:06 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 9:16 ` delete-other-frames martin rudalics
2016-08-25 14:46 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 1:32 ` delete-other-frames Richard Stallman
2016-08-27 7:40 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<E1bdSUT-00059T-8W@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-27 6:31 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
2016-08-27 7:45 ` delete-other-frames Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 13:32 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 13:40 ` delete-other-frames allan gottlieb
2016-08-27 21:45 ` delete-other-frames Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default>
[not found] ` <<E1bdlPn-0005Ch-I4@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-08-28 0:41 ` delete-other-frames Drew Adams
[not found] <<57BC072F.9070704@gmx.at>
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