From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Best way to temporarily raise a frame Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:30:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a114c9586dedb5605602d0bb2" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513121514 12646 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2017 23:31:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 13 00:31:50 2017 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 1eOu1c-0002zv-IY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOu1j-00008I-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOu16-00007y-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOu13-0000J4-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOu13-0000I5-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-f180.google.com ([209.85.216.180]:46394) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eOu12-0000W1-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-f180.google.com with SMTP id r39so1437001qtr.13 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:31:12 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mJaAbXgo46SZWEBtQAKX+XfX1r0rapa6sUS22qkEqqMIvCE8tsX HAlkC4m4Zy+zxbLAjhgwJpQeR8k8kq/71h+TL3U= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBotfgcOALL0ew1mRbWofYhhxj4GOppF4RcXqm7awIa1GHaOTlS0tJFe2MrOMB38h8zLbUxOauzzA58/9jhts5VM= X-Received: by 10.55.5.143 with SMTP id 137mr4463457qkf.231.1513121472500; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:31:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.200.55.124 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:30:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: 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:220977 Archived-At: --001a114c9586dedb5605602d0bb2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It's probably easier (and more portable) to use another frame > (which is displayed "at the top" and then hidden/destroyed). > =E2=80=8BYes, maybe I'll have to settle for displaying some kind of transie= nt message in place of displaying the frame itself. Seems a shame to create and destroy a frame just to provide some feedback. Or I live with just having the frame end up somewhere else in the stack since it likely will be utilized soon in this case. Bob --001a114c9586dedb5605602d0bb2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, Dec 12, 2= 017 at 5:18 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

It's probably easier (and more portable) to use another frame
(which is displayed "at the top" and then hidden/destroyed).
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=E2=80=8BYes, maybe I'll have to settle for disp= laying some kind of transient message in place of displaying the frame itse= lf.
Seems a shame to create and destroy a frame just to provide some feedb= ack.=C2=A0 Or I live with just having the frame
end up somewhere else in t= he stack since it likely will be utilized soon in this case.

Bob
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