From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Copley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24500: 25.1.50; Can't other-window from minibuffer if Ediff control panel frame present Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:09:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83a8f1f8l0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474488692 7874 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2016 20:11:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24500@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 21 22:11:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1bmnrT-0000n0-5N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:11:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54028 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmnrR-0002RV-D1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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create a spare buffer so we can invoke ediff-buffers >> M-x ediff-buffers RET RET RET >> C-x 5 o ; Activate main frame >> M-x ; Select minibuffer >> C-x C-o ; Something not very useful happens >> >> At this point in the recipe Emacs is in a strange state. The cursor in >> the minibuffer is solid but not blinking. There are visual changes in >> the Ediff control frame as though the window is selected, but the >> Ediff frame isn't actually activated. Typing C-g doesn't exit the >> minibuffer (which is still reading the command for M-x). Typing a >> self-inserting character does send that character to the minibuffer, >> and returns things to normal. > > Isn't this just the normal way of having input to one frame being > redirected to another? I don't see how it is normal, so I'm probably missing something. The input to the main frame being redirected to the Ediff frame, or vice versa? Why? And why did "C-x C-o" put me in that state, be it normal or otherwise, rather than selecting one of the windows in the main frame?