From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usage examples of dedicated windows and popup frames? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:51:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871uy0n9ch.fsf@member.fsf.org> <82B55F5AA16147EB86ACAF247643C125@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310144931 16133 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 17:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 17:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Tassilo Horn' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 19:08:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfEXm-0002Ev-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:08:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfEXl-0002AX-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfEHa-0006mZ-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfEHZ-0002nX-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:46728 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfEHY-0002nJ-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:52:01 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EALQ0F05MCqt8/2dsb2JhbABTp0d4iHvCAoY4BJ59hC8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,500,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="123820877" Original-Received: from 76-10-171-124.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.171.124]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 Jul 2011 12:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E773B59160; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:51:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <82B55F5AA16147EB86ACAF247643C125@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:34:52 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141810 Archived-At: >> > I have more than 10 open emacs frames now. Most of them were >> > opened for showing completion possibilities, but after I've finished >> > completion they became useless. It would be great if those would be >> > closed automagically... >> "They" should be iconified automatically and only one frame should be >> (re-)used for *Completions*. > What happens to the frame should be under _user_ control. At least it > should be possible to choose frame deletion rather than iconification. I know, Drew. You've made your point obnoxiously clear several times already. But here, I'm talking about "the current intended default behavior", i.e. that which decides whether what he sees in his default config is a bug or not. I.e. unrelated to your rant. Stefan