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- From: Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
- Subject: Re: Lucid Emacs inhibits deletion of the only *visible* screen
- In-Reply-To: jwz@lucid.com's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:17:54 PST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.011212.9659@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell Northern Research
- References: <1992Nov10.234108.8655@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <9211110017.AA11808@thalidomide.lucid>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 01:12:12 GMT
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- >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:17:54 PST,
- >>>>> In message <9211110017.AA11808@thalidomide.lucid>,
- >>>>> jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) wrote:
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- Jamie> It used to do the other thing and people complained.
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- Caveat User.
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- Jamie> Also, a problem is that it's hard to know whether a window is
- Jamie> *iconified* or *unmapped*. (You can tell, but it's hard, and
- Jamie> there are race conditions.) If all the other emacs screens are
- Jamie> unmapped (which you can do from elisp) then if you deleted the
- Jamie> only visible screen, your emacs would be detached: you'd have
- Jamie> to kill the process.
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- gnudoit '(x-create-screen nil)'
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- Jamie> And if you're using twm without icons (but with icon managers)
- Jamie> then there's no way to tell the difference between being
- Jamie> unmapped in a way that the window manager can undo and being
- Jamie> unmapped in a way that it can't.
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- Yeah, I thought of all that, but can it at least be made an option?
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- I'm going to change it in our copy in any case.
-