Re: Pretest?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Another possible complication (which I haven't thought much about) is
> when Emacs has frames open on more than one display.  If you are
> currently working on one display, having left isearch on in another
> display, invoking emacsclient might lead to puzzling behavior.

Read the relevant code in server.el.  It contains a comment that explains
that the exit-minibuffer behavior is there specifically to deal with
multi-display situations.  This same problem doesn't directly affect isearch
I believe, or at least not to the same extent (with recursive edits, the
active terminal grabs control, so the other display's events are completely
blocked).

Supposedly, since isearch uses overriding-terminal-local-map, it should be
possible to keep isearch running on the other display, but I believe that
the current implementation of isearch mixes up terminal-local, buffer-local,
and global settings in such a messed up way that it won't work without
further changes.


        Stefan