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Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:20:15 +0300

> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:02:55 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Seeing as how a minibuffer often has a strong association with its frame
> (e.g., C-x C-f opens a buffer in the same frame it was invoked from),
> this shifting of minibuffers from one frame to another is confusing.

Is it?  It makes sure the minibuffer is on the selected frame, which
is natural in many/most use cases.  Forcing the user to go back to a
non-selected frame _is_ IMO confusing and inconvenient, at least in
the usual cases.



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