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Re: About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:15:45 +0200

>> But then we can't discriminate minibuffer-less from normal frames by
>> looking at the parameter value only.
>
> We can look at what window-frame returns for that window, can't we?

Tediously so, yes.

>> This goes both ways.  With (2) Emacs would choose nil when
>> ‘set-frame-position’ explicitly asks for a window.  And with no
>> 'minibuffer' specified we'd have to return t or a window in any case.
>
> Yes, but IMO nil is not a meaningful value.  If we know better, we
> should return a more concrete value.

Sounds convincing.

> Yes, of course, the current situation is not impossible.  We are
> talking about improving it.

I attached a preliminary version of the code changes.  Please have a
look.

Thanks, martin

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