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24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:32:11 +0200

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

It's an option (a customizable variable).  Do

M-: (require 'ediff) RET

C-h v RET ediff-window-setup-function RET

> 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"

Maybe we should say in the documentation of `delete-frame' something
like

  A frame may not be deleted if its minibuffer serves as surrogate
  minibuffer for another frame.

martin

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