Re: About the 'minibuffer' frame parameter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:27:02 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
>  > In general, I prefer to
>  > report the actual values whenever possible, especially when we have no
>  > reason to hide the value from Lisp applications.
> 
> Modulo the fact that, as I mentioned above, some application might want
> to use (not (frame-parameter frame 'minibuffer)) to check whether it is
> allowed to change the minibuffer window of an arbitrary frame.
> 
>  >> As mentioned before, removing the special treatment of the 'minibuffer'
>  >> parameter in ‘frame-parameters’ would imply that Elisp code relying on
>  >> the values we report currently might be broken in the future.
>  >
>  > And my suggestion to that was to fix that code, wherever we find it.
> 
> frameset.el already fixes the code internally so we would have to revert
> those fixes.  That's hairy.  And I don't know how many times anyone else
> already has invented a workaround for all these idiosyncrasies.

So what is your suggestion for the course of actions?