Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 18.05.2020 19:31, Robert Pluim wrote:

>      Dmitry> Error setting pop-up-mini-mode: (error ’pop-up-mini-mode’ needs a
>      Dmitry> minibuffer-only frame)
>
>      Dmitry> (Whether I start from 'emacs -Q' or not.)
>
> And if you set emacs to use a minibuffer-only frame?
>
>      emacs -Q --eval "(setq default-frame-alist '((minibuffer . nil)))"

That setting is at the bottom of the file Martin attached.

I finally understood what I was doing wrong: I tried to visit the file 
and 'M-x eval-buffer' from an existing graphical frame. That got me the 
error.

If I load it from init.el, the result is fairly functional (though with 
a number of glitches), and it really does look like an improvement over 
the current situation. Even if the main benefit is simply locality: it 
displays the "minibuffer" at the bottom of the current window, not frame.