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Article #87242minibufs active on only one frame
From: David Karr
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 07:45
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 07:45
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Gnu Emacsv19.25, Sun IPX, OSv4.1.3, Motif mwm. I have a user who manages to get his Emacs into a strange state with respect to frames and his minibuffer. Once in this state, he has to kill his Emacs to fix it. He will have several normal frames open, and he will click on one (WM click-to-type) to give it focus, and the text cursor goes from outline to filled, indicating it has the focus, then he will press M-x to enter a command, but the minibuffer on that frame doesn't show anything. He notices that the "M-x" shows up on a DIFFERENT frame, even though the focus is still on the original frame. From then on, that frame that is showing the minibuffer gets the minibuffer output, no matter what frame the keys are pressed on. If we delete the frame that is getting the minibuffer output and repeat the test, then some other frame then gets the minibuffer "focus", no matter which frame the keys are pressed on. After he kills his Emacs and restarts, this behavior goes away (until it comes back). I've tried looking at the output of "minibuffer-frame-list", and it shows all the frames he has, not just the one that gets the minibuffer "focus". Is there any other debug information I can get? ============================================================================ David M. Karr | Unix/X/C++/Emacs | GTE - Government Systems dkarr@nmo.gtegsc.com | Software Engineer | w:(206)487-8578 h:(206)483-1732 dkarr@eskimo.com | |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,be868d5405ef224d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-06 04:33:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!gtenmo1.nmo.gtegsc.com!dkarr From: dkarr@gtenmo1.nmo.gtegsc.com (David Karr) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: minibufs active on only one frame Date: 6 Oct 1994 03:45:25 -0400 Organization: GTE NMO Lines: 30 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <DKARR.94Oct5101803@cheetos.nmo.gtegsc.com>