Re: "Final" version of tty child frames

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:11:01 -0500
>> From: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at
>> 
>> I think it would be good for unimplemented features to communicate that 
>> state to the user so users know clearly what is going on.  Right now the 
>> error a user sees is "Can’t change the ‘minibuffer’ parameter of this 
>> frame". Wouldn't it be better to have make-terminal-frame (a brand new 
>> function with no existing clients to support) error with something like 
>> "Minibuffer only frames are not supported in terminals"?
>
> I think minibuffer-only frames _are_ implemented on TTYs (albeit not
> very useful there).  They are not implemented as child frames, I
> think.
>
> But yes, emitting an explicit error message about something not
> implemented would be definitely better.

Pushed something like that to the branch.