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bug#24500: 25.1.50; Can't other-window from minibuffer if Ediff control
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#24500: 25.1.50; Can't other-window from minibuffer if Ediff control panel frame present |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:49:29 +0200 |
> Right. And the behaviour towards the end of the video, where clicking on
> the title bars doesn't affect the window where typed characters are inserted:
> do you see the same thing there as well?
No. I can't reproduce that. It seems to make the previous frame sort
of a modal window - something I experience with Emacs only when asking a
‘yes-or-no-p’ question.
>> I'd still want to see comments from other Windows users on this. Can
>> you provide a scenario people can test on an unpatched emacs -Q where
>>
>> (make-frame '((minibuffer . nil)))
>>
>> followed by M-x in the new frame doesn't allow switching frames via
>> Alt-Tab or mouse clicks as long as the minibuffer is active? We need a
>> third opinion on this.
>
> No, I haven't noticed such a scenario.
So we can consider my patch to frame.c the culprit for the misbehavior
you observe. Or at least the "greater freedom" it provides.
> OK. I was wondering if some setting or third-party tool could explain the
> differences between what you and I were seeing, but if there is no difference
> after all (?) then it's not worth thinking about.
It's possible that some of my settings or tools affect this. That's why
it would have been interesting to hear a few more comments ...
martin