From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames? Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:34:52 -0700 Message-ID: <82B55F5AA16147EB86ACAF247643C125@us.oracle.com> References: <871uy0n9ch.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310144180 10813 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 16:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'Tassilo Horn'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 18:56:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfELb-0003Gu-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:56:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfELZ-0007fN-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfE1D-00034W-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfE1B-0008D1-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:41703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfE1A-0008B6-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p68GYxqr024134 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:35:01 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p68GYw1E026566 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:34:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt102.oracle.com (abhmt102.oracle.com [141.146.116.54]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p68GYrLW024346; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.32.31) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:34:53 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 Thread-Index: Acw9ie81Fz0Ldz6cQr6OjkkoV3vrLQAAPpfw X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4E1731B5.016C:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141809 Archived-At: > > 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.