From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10186: 23.3; save-some-buffers not making review windows large enough Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:20:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4ED8FAB5.3050306@gmx.at> References: <4ED892A1.9010109@gmx.at> <4ED8D8F1.9070307@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322842858 26305 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2011 16:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10186@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 17:20:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVr1-0006u4-Cv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:20:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVr0-0003xK-Uv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVqx-0003x2-TK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVqw-0005XL-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVqw-0005XD-PJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVrB-0001LM-Ri for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:21:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: martin rudalics Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10186 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10186-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10186.13228428265122 (code B ref 10186); Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10186) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Dec 2011 16:20:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVqa-0001KX-Kz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWVqX-0001KP-OV for 10186@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Dec 2011 16:20:05 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-46-5.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.46.5]) [62.47.46.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 02 Dec 2011 17:20:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/r1Eg82FXrqCh+WgRmlz98in7obmORMvTcIxqe28 gemVb+f58Ld4fR User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:21:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54620 Archived-At: > No, my frame is huge. The problem is that it is already divided up, > including a small window that sometimes/often gets chosen by Emacs for > display-buffer. This happens because `display-buffer-use-some-window' tries the least recently used window first. If that window happens to be small ... In any case this sounds like a more general problem with your setup so maybe something like the following would help (defun make-small-windows-softly-dedicated () (walk-window-tree (lambda (window) (cond ((and (> (window-total-size window) 10) (eq (window-dedicated-p window) 'too-small)) (set-window-dedicated-p window nil)) ((and (<= (window-total-size window) 10) (not (window-dedicated-p window))) (set-window-dedicated-p window 'too-small)))))) (add-hook 'window-configuration-change-hook 'make-small-windows-softly-dedicated) replacing the "10" by a value of your choice. martin