Re: should frame names be unique?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>,
>         <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:38:06 -0700
> 
> > > > > Yes, both. Though select-frame-by-name apparently removes
> > > > > duplicates, so AFAICT it doesn't even let you select some of
> > > > > the frames (a bug?).
> > 
> > I don't see duplicate removal in select-frame-by-name; can you point
> > me to what I'm missing here?
> 
> Dunno. ;-)
> 
> I used emacs -Q, then C-x 5 2 a few times on a couple buffers.
> 
> Then M-x select-frame-by-name TAB shows me only, say, two names, for the two
> buffers that are shown in, say, 6 frames altogether. Duplicate frame names are
> removed from *Completions*. 
> 
> That's normal Emacs completion behavior

Yes, I think duplicates, if they exist, are removed by completion
subroutines.

> I don't think anyone is criticizing select-frame-by-name.

And I wasn't defending it, just explaining the design decisions I made
when I wrote it, in the hope that it will be useful to whoever
undertakes to change it now.