* bug#18170: 24.3.92; window-atom and window-side parameters
@ 2014-08-01 15:03 Nicolas Richard
2014-08-01 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 8:57 ` martin rudalics
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Richard @ 2014-08-01 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18170
Hi
in e.g. (info "(elisp) Deleting Windows") (and some other places), it is
said:
Otherwise, this function obeys the `window-atom' or `window-side'
window parameter, if any. *Note Window Parameters::.
But in (info "(elisp) Window Parameters"), the only occurrence of
window-side is in:
There are additional parameters `window-atom' and `window-side';
these are reserved and should not be used by applications.
What are these parameters ?
The docstring of delete-other-windows has :
Otherwise, if WINDOW is part of an atomic window, call this
function with the root of the atomic window as its argument. If
WINDOW is a non-side window, make WINDOW the only non-side window
on the frame. Side windows are not deleted. If WINDOW is a side
window signal an error.
but I don't get it, and I'm not even sure it is related to the above
parameters.
I tried
(progn
(set-window-parameter
(selected-window)
'window-side t)
(delete-other-windows
(selected-window)))
but that doesn't signal any error. So perhaps window-side parameter
isn't about side windows at all ? After a bit more of fiddling, I
understand that (display-buffer-in-side-window BUFFER ALIST) is used to
make the side windows, but that isn't mentionned in the elisp manual.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2014-07-11 on geodiff-mac3
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11304000
System Description: Gentoo Base System release 2.2
Configured using:
`configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --enable-checking 'CFLAGS= -O0 -g3''
Important settings:
value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
--
Nico.
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* bug#18170: 24.3.92; window-atom and window-side parameters
2014-08-01 15:03 bug#18170: 24.3.92; window-atom and window-side parameters Nicolas Richard
@ 2014-08-01 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 8:57 ` martin rudalics
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2014-08-01 15:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Richard, 18170
+1 for this bug report (more explanation of such parameters).
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* bug#18170: 24.3.92; window-atom and window-side parameters
2014-08-01 15:03 bug#18170: 24.3.92; window-atom and window-side parameters Nicolas Richard
2014-08-01 15:13 ` Drew Adams
@ 2016-10-17 8:57 ` martin rudalics
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: martin rudalics @ 2016-10-17 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Richard, 18170-done
> in e.g. (info "(elisp) Deleting Windows") (and some other places), it is
> said:
> Otherwise, this function obeys the `window-atom' or `window-side'
> window parameter, if any. *Note Window Parameters::.
>
> But in (info "(elisp) Window Parameters"), the only occurrence of
> window-side is in:
> There are additional parameters `window-atom' and `window-side';
> these are reserved and should not be used by applications.
>
> What are these parameters ?
>
> The docstring of delete-other-windows has :
>
> Otherwise, if WINDOW is part of an atomic window, call this
> function with the root of the atomic window as its argument. If
> WINDOW is a non-side window, make WINDOW the only non-side window
> on the frame. Side windows are not deleted. If WINDOW is a side
> window signal an error.
>
> but I don't get it, and I'm not even sure it is related to the above
> parameters.
>
> I tried
> (progn
> (set-window-parameter
> (selected-window)
> 'window-side t)
> (delete-other-windows
> (selected-window)))
> but that doesn't signal any error. So perhaps window-side parameter
> isn't about side windows at all ? After a bit more of fiddling, I
> understand that (display-buffer-in-side-window BUFFER ALIST) is used to
> make the side windows, but that isn't mentionned in the elisp manual.
Should be fully documented now in master's Elisp manual. Bug closed.
Thanks, martin
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