Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!

[Gregory Heytings]

Hi Alan,

> The behaviour in Emacs 21-27 was unsatisfactory.  Eli and I agreed this 
> earlier on in this thread, and explicitly agreed the new behaviour would 
> be different.
>
> That earlier behaviour was agreed to be chaotic, and would be very 
> difficult to restore without breaking the recent changes in this area.
>
> What, in particular, do you miss from the old behaviour?  If it's 
> something specific, maybe it would be possible to add it in, somehow.

Simply: the old behavior.

I agree that a new option "minibuffer-follows-selected-frame" would be 
welcome, and I also agree that it can be set to t by default in Emacs 28, 
but setting it to nil should restore the behavior of Emacs 21-27.

Changing the longstanding behavior of something as central to Emacs as the 
minibuffer just because two people agree that it is "chaotic", while many 
have been using it for decades without complaining, and without giving 
those who for one reason or another like/rely on the old behavior a way to 
restore the old behavior, is just wrong IMO.