From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I tell when the current buffer is the minibuffer?
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:39:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91ziuc38pg.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160305210248.GA26757@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:02:49 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
minibuffer-window-active-p perhaps
> Hello, Emacs.
>
> My problem is as stated in the Subject: line.
>
> Part of my program is being called from `signal_after_change' after
> activity in the minibuffer. However, in that program the buffer local
> variables for the main buffer (not the minibuffer) are still in scope.
>
> I need some way of distinguishing that we're in the minibuffer so as to
> avoid corrupting the buffer local variables of the selected buffer.
>
> I've tried "Fminibufferp (Qnil);", but this seems just to return nil,
> even when the current buffer IS the minibuffer.
>
> I've even tried reading the fine manual without finding anything useful.
>
> Would somebody please tell me what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-05 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-05 21:02 How do I tell when the current buffer is the minibuffer? Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-05 21:39 ` raman [this message]
2016-03-05 22:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-05 22:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-05 22:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-05 22:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-05 23:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-05 23:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-06 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 21:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-08 5:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-06 20:15 ` Johan Bockgård
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