From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Mark T. Kennedy" <mkennedy@diamondbackcap.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: switch-to-buffer-other-frame fails to pop-up window
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:18:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICGENLEBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47597732.6010608@diamondbackcap.com>
> > There are thus different use cases and preferences.
>
> do you think it is worth while to catalog the styles of use? as
> a prelude to finding a way to better support them?
I wouldn't try, but that's sort of what happens anyway, little by little.
When someone such as Martin tries to fix a reported bug, he tries to
understand the reported use case and accomodate it appropriately.
> i want a separate help buffer per frame without having to
> rename it by hand. i tried to do that by hooking help-mode.el's
> "help-buffer" function (which computes the appropriate help buffer
> name) but i could not get it to discover the containing frame object.
>
> by the time 'help-buffer' was called, the magic minibuffer
> implementation arranged for the magic minibuffer frame (not a
> dedicated minibuffer frame like the one you use but probably a magic
> one to allow sharing of the minibuffer across different real buffer
> frames) to be the 'selected-frame'.
>
> you can see this by doing "M-: (selected-frame)' after a fresh "emacs
> -Q" and then repeating after popping up a second frame. once you've
> popped up a second frame, '(selected-frame)' under "M-:" always
> returns the magic minibuffer frame (which i think is a bug).
No, if I understand you correctly, that is normal. During `M-:', the
minibuffer must have the input focus, so its frame is selected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 14:48 switch-to-buffer-other-frame fails to pop-up window Mark T. Kennedy
2007-12-04 7:37 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-05 19:55 ` Mark T. Kennedy
2007-12-05 22:11 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-06 18:43 ` Mark T. Kennedy
2007-12-06 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-06 20:11 ` Mark T. Kennedy
2007-12-06 22:06 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-07 16:39 ` Mark T. Kennedy
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-12-07 19:41 ` Mark T. Kennedy
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