GNU bug report logs - #5616
23.1.92; `delete-frame' deletes the last frame when emacsclient runs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: p1ng2h3ng <at> gmail.com

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 5616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: p1ng2h3ng <at> gmail.com
Cc: 5616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5616: 23.1.92;
	`delete-frame' deletes the last frame when emacsclient runs
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:48:47 -0500

> when I run `emacs --daemon -Q' and `emacsclient -nc', then if I try `M-x
> delete-frame', emacsclient seems will delete last remaining frame
> without check or remind.

Yes, this is only marginally new: if you have frames on several
displays, then M-x delete-frame will happily delete the last frame of
a given display, as long as there are still frames on some
other display.

So the case of "emacs --daemon" is only new in that the remaining frame
is actually not visible to the user, but is instead used internally by
the "emacs --daemon" code.

The rule for delete-frame should be something like "refuse to delete
a frame if it would result in a dead Emacs process", but admittedly, the
code doesn't really enforce that either.


        Stefan
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