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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 21305@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:30:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7036da11-d296-45a9-b6ee-d7b68830927e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D74386.6010708@gmx.at>

>  > But as one user I'm disappointed.  I was hoping for a usable
>  > window order.  In fact, I was hoping for something similar to
>  > `buffer-list' - hoping that users would get a list of the windows
>  > (displaying a particular buffer) in order of their last use.
>  >
>  > I know no way to obtain such a list, but if there is one, please
>  > be so kind as to let me know.  `walk-windows' etc. go through
>  > windows in their "structural" order, but how can I tell, given
>  > a list of windows showing a given buffer, which were last used
>  > after which others?
>  >
>  > Yes, my question is outside the scope of this bug (if the list
>  > `get-buffer-window-list' has no order we can depend on or even
>  > if its order is unrelated to the chronological order of access).
> 
> I suppose you mean that we should document `window-use-time' too.
> Correct?

Oh, yes; please do.  I was unaware of it.  I can map that over 
`get-buffer-window-list' or otherwise filter that list wrt use time.
Very good.  Thx.  Somehow, I wasn't able to find this, which was
for me a missing piece.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<089f48ed-6ce9-4753-abcf-3f86d43a278e@default>
     [not found] ` <<83vbc8iyut.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-21 13:21   ` bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order? Drew Adams
2015-08-21 13:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-21 15:28     ` martin rudalics
2015-08-21 15:30       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-08-21 15:58         ` martin rudalics
2015-08-20 17:49           ` Drew Adams
2015-08-21 12:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-21 16:12             ` Drew Adams
2015-08-21 16:32               ` Drew Adams
2015-08-21 17:42                 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-22  6:40                   ` martin rudalics
2015-08-22 14:31                     ` Drew Adams
2015-08-22 16:01                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-22 17:23                         ` Drew Adams
2015-08-22 17:30                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-23 13:33                         ` martin rudalics
2015-08-21 16:00           ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<5430f5a7-2939-4f96-8c6c-3e820ffcfd6b@default>
     [not found] ` <<83oai0iwbc.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-21 15:08   ` Drew Adams
2015-08-21 15:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <<55D74386.6010708@gmx.at>
     [not found]   ` <<7036da11-d296-45a9-b6ee-d7b68830927e@default>
     [not found]     ` <<55D74AA3.1070202@gmx.at>
     [not found]       ` <<1b17a036-c525-4dbc-84fa-cc8adc2b6488@default>
     [not found]         ` <<50fbb71c-8a6d-45b4-a467-a31bcc73ac09@default>
     [not found]           ` <<a18faa5f-a31e-49c2-809b-64fdd40fa273@default>
     [not found]             ` <<55D8195A.4040804@gmx.at>
     [not found]               ` <<9aa1dcd7-1781-41aa-bf47-7b280b26da1e@default>
     [not found]                 ` <<jwvoahziaao.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]                   ` <<cf171405-a9e3-4312-b456-ff68352d4052@default>
     [not found]                     ` <<83a8tji626.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-22 19:01                       ` Drew Adams
2015-08-23 22:34                         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <<870b6a90-e498-4ed9-9e41-d498edf33aec@default>
     [not found] ` <<83mvxkis5t.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-21 15:28   ` Drew Adams
2015-08-21 18:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<b7c7a7fe-1e8a-4add-8585-1698e16348cf@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83lhd4ijh3.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-21 19:18       ` Drew Adams

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