[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: address@hidden: weird behavior of ediff with multiple displays]
From: |
Michael Kifer |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: weird behavior of ediff with multiple displays] |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:27:39 -0500 |
If I specify that I want a frame without a minibuffer, I don't want emacs
to second-guess me and create a minibuffer-only frame that I didn't ask for.
This is a bad idea. If I wanted a separate minibuffer then I would have
said that I want it explicitly.
> I don't think this is the right thing to do in all cases.
> This shouldn't happen when there is another frame that already has a
> minibuffer.
>
> I don't like the idea of making one frame use another frame's
> minibuffer, as a default. If you want to do that, you can do it
> explicitly, by specifying a different value for the `minibuffer' frame
> parameter. But the thing Emacs does automatically is create a separate
> minibuffer frame.
>
> I just commented out an incorrect change which would have altered
> that.
>
> For some reason emacs adds the separate minibuffer frame
> when it works over the ssh tunnel and displays frames on the local
> machine (while running on a remote).
>
> Perhaps the code that creates the separate minibuffer frame
> needs to specify different arguments in that case.
>
> The code is in make_frame_without_minibuffer.
> Would someone like to suggest a patch to make it DTRT
> in this case?
>
Re: address@hidden: weird behavior of ediff with multiple displays], Lőrentey Károly, 2005/12/08