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Re: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: display-buffer-other-frame - useful? doc string?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:43:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> The intention of this function seems to be (compared to C-x 5 b) that
>>> the focus should stay in the original frame rather than go to the
>>> new frame.
>
>> Except that the current frame is unmapped, and thus made completely
>> invisible (not even iconified).  IMHO that the worst feature of that
>> function.
>
> Hmm.. the code does:
>
>     (make-frame-invisible (window-frame old-window))
>     (make-frame-visible (window-frame old-window))
>
> so it *shouldn't* stay invisible.

That didn't work when I tried it with fvwm2.  But in any case, it will
result in an annoying flicker.

Andreas.

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