Subject: Re: bug#75828: [PATCH] Correct make-frame docstring vis-a-vis make_frame.c

From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:40:21 -0500

Hmm. make-frame-may-show-it doesn't really capture the nature of
make-frame's hidden buffer name check, though. How about
make-frame-show-hidden-buffer?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM martin rudalics <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > That works for me applied to a recent master. Happy to use the buffer
> > local.
>
> We'd need a shorter name, maybe something like 'make-frame-may-show-it'.
>
> > It's unlikely to cause trouble if a user doesn't kill it, and we'll
> > understand why if they don't.
>
> Users who setq it locally or setq-default it know what they want.  Users
> who prefer let-binding it won't even notice that it's an automatically
> buffer-local variable.
>
> martin
>