Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!

[Gregory Heytings]

> > That's a basic thing to learn when you use Emacs.  And it's easy to 
> > understand: the echo area is for "status messages" with which you do 
> > not interact (and this is visible because the point does not leave the 
> > buffer in which you are), minibuffers are for "commands" with which you 
> > interact (and this is visible because the point moves from the buffer 
> > in which you are to the miniwindow).
>
> It's not so easy.  With Emacs 26, 'y-or-n-p' still used the echo area 
> for answering questions.

Okay, there are (or rather, IIUC, there were) exceptions to that general 
rule ;-)  But I think you meant Emacs 25 and earlier, with my Emacs 26 
y-or-n-p does use the minibuffer.