From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bago@ludens.elte.hu (Toto) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in Date: 8 Jun 2005 16:55:19 +0200 Organization: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118242947 17105 80.91.229.2 (8 Jun 2005 15:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 17:02:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dg222-0006e5-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dg28m-0005M2-9g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:06:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.iif.hu!NIIF!ludens.elte.hu!not-for-bago Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131883 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27351 In article , Peter Dyballa 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. > -- > Greetings > <] > Pete o __o |__ o recumbo > ___o /I -\<, |o \ -\),-% ergo sum! > ___/\ /\___./ \___...O/ O____.....`-O-'-()--o_________________ > > > -- [ Toto ]