Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!

[Gregory Heytings]

> I'm not quite sure what a mini-window is.  Does it mean the window 
> within which the minibuffer is displayed?  As in max-mini-window-height?

The mini-window is usually at the bottom of the Emacs frame and is usually 
only one line tall.  It does not have a mode-line.  It displays the 
minibuffer (for interactive use, with C-x C-f, M-x, ...) and the echo area 
(for messages).

> > So if we cannot reconcile our preferences, maybe we should have a user 
> > option to decide which behavior to choose.
>
> Perhaps.  If we can formulate the two (or several) options in a 
> non-confusing way.  This is a fairly arcane matter.

AFAIU, the possible options include at least:

- keep the current behavior, with which all recursive minibuffers are 
moved from one frame to another when one or more minibuffers are active in 
one frame, and a new recursive activation happens in another frame (which 
happens only when enable-recursive-minibuffers is t)

- move all recursive minibuffers from one frame to the other when 
switching to another frame

- tie each one of the recursive minibuffers to the frame in which it was 
activated

(Of course the above options only make sense when there is one miniwindow 
in each frame.)