Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in

[bago@ludens.elte.hu (Toto)]

In article <mailman.3863.1118240186.25862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 08.06.2005 um 15:18 schrieb David Reitter:
> 
>> If I open a second frame, then do C-x C-f in one of them and press tab 
>> so that the window is split and I get a *Completions* buffer in one 
>> frame, and when I then select the second frame and do a C-x C-f there, 
>> I don't get another *Completions* buffer there, but an error message 
>> that appears in the first frame:
>>
>> "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer"
>>
> 
> No, that's definitely no bug! There is in the first frame minibuffer 
> waiting for your input. And since there is only one such thing, yet, 
> you can't use it for something different somewhere else.
> 
> I think too it would be a nice enhancement if every frame would have 
> its own minibuffer. I remember that from time to time I had to use more 
> than one Emacs running to get things together for an input to 
> minibuffer (could have sorted this out in scratch buffer -- but then I 
> would have needed to remember how I made minibuffer awaiting my input 
> ...)

If you set enable-recursive-minibuffers to t it works.
(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)

So that's definitely no bug, indeed.
 
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