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Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:26:08 +0200

> From: Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:27:45 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, enometh@meer.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> Does anyone else think this is common usage, to have a minibuffer-only 
> >> frame
> >> while other frames also have minibuffers?
> >
> > FWIW, I've never seen it in the wild (I've seen mixes of frames with
> > and without minibuffers, but when there is a minibuffer-only frame
> > never seen it accompanied with other frames-with-minibuffer, except for
> > frames on other terminals).
> 
> I don't sure what the "in the wild" means, but I know at least two
> packages that shows minibuffer-only child frame on reading user input:

I didn't ask if this was possible, or used, I asked if such usage is
common.  It is clear that we cannot find a default that will fit all
the uses, but we should have the default that works well in common use
cases.



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