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: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:49:49 +0300 Message-ID: <837fbohe5u.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> <8337mehu5u.fsf@gnu.org> <57A9FFDE.10106@gmx.at> <83pophhq1a.fsf@gnu.org> <57AA141C.5010701@gmx.at> <83mvklhluf.fsf@gnu.org> <57AB1AF1.2010205@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 1470840699 5169 195.159.176.226 (10 Aug 2016 14:51:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 16:51:33 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 1bXUqy-00018H-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:51:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXUqv-0003ZQ-Nr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXUpf-00021x-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXUpa-0005L2-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXUpa-0005KX-5T; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4040 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bXUpY-0002TC-4g; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:50:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <57AB1AF1.2010205@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:15:45 +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:206537 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:15:45 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> This goes both ways. With (2) Emacs would choose nil when > >> ‘set-frame-position’ explicitly asks for a window. And with no > >> 'minibuffer' specified we'd have to return t or a window in any case. > > > > Yes, but IMO nil is not a meaningful value. If we know better, we > > should return a more concrete value. > > Sounds convincing. > > > Yes, of course, the current situation is not impossible. We are > > talking about improving it. > > I attached a preliminary version of the code changes. Please have a > look. I took a cursory look, and it looks OK to me. Thanks.