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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 19:36:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 20538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20538: 24.4; Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 05:41:03 +0300

> Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 14:35:40 -0500
> From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> I do not know how I got into this (sorry, I do not have a recipe to
> reproduce this either).  I have a frame I want to delete by running
> delete-frame.  Yet this only gives me the error message
> 
>   "Attempt to delete a surrogate minibuffer frame"
> 
> and delete-frame refuses to do its job.  What does this mean?

It means you tried to delete a frame that serves as a minibuffer for
another frame.
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