GNU bug report logs - #3303
delete-frame raises old (invisible) frame

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Message #50 received at 3303 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 3303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>,
        Adrian Robert <Adrian.B.Robert <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#3303: delete-frame raises old (invisible) frame
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:26:46 -0400

>> This is a behavior which depends on the window-management policy, so
>> it's the responsibility of the window-manager (which may even decide
>> that the focus should return to some other application, which would make
>> a lot of sense if the frame was created via $EDITOR=emacsclient).

> Shouldn't then frames created via emacsclient be a special case? That
> would of course make more sense if the frame was deleted together with
> the buffer opened through emacsclient...

> For other frames both leaving it to the window manager and staying in
> Emacs makes sense to me. Maybe a user option (if it is possible to
> stay in Emacs at all)?

Part of what you quoted was meant to imply that it's not for Emacs to
decide (both that it shouldn't and that it can't: at least under X11
it's usually out of Emacs's control).


        Stefan

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