Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:13:35 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Yes.  It seems my patch from yesterday was too complicated.  At the

> Agreed.  I think we should more narrowly taylor-make it for the problem
> at hand: i.e. when signaling an error, remember the selected-frame
> somewhere before doing the longjmp, and then when emitting the error
> message make use of that remembered selected-frame to choose which
> miniwindow to use for the message.

Er, I think you're talking about the patch I committed on Thursday, not
the proposed one I sent to Martin.

> Basically, the problem at hand is that we want to emit the error message
> "as if" we did it before the longjmp, but for technical reasons we need
> to do it after the longjmp.


>         Stefan

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