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[PATCH] Correct make-frame docstring vis-a-vis make_frame.c

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 75828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#75828: [PATCH] Correct make-frame docstring vis-a-vis make_frame.c
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:40:21 -0500

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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 <rudalics <at> gmx.at> 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
>

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