From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Tassilo Horn'" <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames?
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:34:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82B55F5AA16147EB86ACAF247643C125@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvliw8sqi7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > I have more than 10 open emacs frames now. Most of them were
> > opened for showing completion possibilities, but after I've finished
> > completion they became useless. It would be great if those would be
> > closed automagically...
>
> "They" should be iconified automatically and only one frame should be
> (re-)used for *Completions*.
What happens to the frame should be under _user_ control. At least it should be
possible to choose frame deletion rather than iconification.
On MS Windows, at least, iconifying is more or less animated: you see the frame
zip down to the task bar, and that's annoying if it happens all the time. When
a frame is deleted, OTOH, it simply disappears immediately - poof!
And it is normally the case that I (at least) do not _want_ to have such frames
among those iconified - ever. Useless clutter.
In Windows, you get an icon in the task bar for Emacs, and clicking it pops up a
list (menu) of all of the iconified frames. There's no way I want to see
*Completions* (or any other frame I'm done with) in this list.
*Completions* is for temporary display. I would never pick *Completions* in the
menu of iconified frames to raise it. I hardly ever want to access
*Completions* outside of the minibuffer dialog, and whenever I do (e.g. to copy
its text from the last dialog for some purpose) I just use `C-x C-b'.
At least for me, on MS Windows, I want the *Completions* frame deleted, never
iconified. So "should be iconified" is a non-starter here, for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 14:19 Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames? Tassilo Horn
2011-07-08 14:47 ` Richard Riley
2011-07-08 14:49 ` John Yates
2011-07-08 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 16:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-07-08 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 17:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-08 17:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-08 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 13:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-09 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-10 0:43 ` chad
2011-07-10 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 9:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-12 17:47 ` chad
2011-07-12 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 6:24 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-13 23:09 ` chad
2011-07-10 23:45 ` undisplay temporary dialog buffers when done [was: ... dedicated windows and popup frames] Drew Adams
2011-07-09 17:22 ` Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames? Tassilo Horn
2011-07-10 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 9:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-10 15:30 ` martin rudalics
2011-07-10 16:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-10 21:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-08 16:11 ` Drew Adams
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