GNU bug report logs - #20538
24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame

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Message #32 received at 20538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 20538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:42:36 -0500

On Tue May 12 2015 martin rudalics wrote:
> Such things happen to me all the time.  That's why I prefer
> `ediff-setup-windows-plain' (and `split-window-horizontally' as
> `ediff-split-window-function').

How do you use the undocumented function ediff-setup-windows-plain?
(Could this usage be properly documented?)

> The problem is that the entity that issues the message is not aware of
> the intrinsics of ediff.

Sure.  I was more thinking that quite generally the error message
talking about a "surrogate minibuffer frame" is a bit confusing if
one has no clue what this term means.  When I first saw this
message, I thought of something like a "minibuffer frame" that was
some kind of surrogate (which was why I thought this was supposed to
refer to the Ediff control panel that acts like a minibuffer for an
ediff session).

Perhaps the error message could be changed to something like

  "Attempt to delete frame with a surrogate minibuffer for frame XYZ"

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