From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:51:57 +0300 Message-ID: <8337mehu5u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <579E3F9E.8020200@gmx.at> <83h9azl4s1.fsf@gnu.org> <57A4C0DE.3060506@gmx.at> <837fbvkofs.fsf@gnu.org> <57A5AF03.30807@gmx.at> <8360rck7kd.fsf@gnu.org> <57A84256.8030706@gmx.at> <83popji89w.fsf@gnu.org> <57A9940B.6030005@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470754393 32754 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2016 14:53:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 16:53:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8Oz-0008RL-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:53:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36033 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8Ow-0004i2-8U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8O6-0004dh-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8O4-0002d4-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8O4-0002co-AZ; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1750 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8O2-0003ea-6U; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:52:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <57A9940B.6030005@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:27:55 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206503 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:27:55 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > So what is your suggestion for the course of actions? > > (1) Make sure that store_frame_param doesn't store invalid parameter > values. > > (2) Never store a minibuffer window as frame parameter. > > (3) Have ‘frame-parameter’ return the 'minibuffer' parameter as stored > internally. If no stored value is available, return t. > > (4) Wait for regression reports. > > (5) Fix the documentation. > > (6) Fix/remove related comments. I'm okay with that, but I'm surprised by (2): won't storing the minibuffer window there allow us to report the correct value in (3)? What am I missing?