> It might not help in the case at hand, but instead of advising
> 'select-window' (which won't do the job anyway when a window is
> selected directly via select_window) please add your function to
> 'buffer-list-update-hook'.  Hooking 'select-window' _is_ bad idea,
> always.

I will try that, even though I'm pretty sure that I already tried this
approach in the past and switched back to advising `select-window` but I
cannot recall the reason.

On 2 May 2018 at 15:47, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> > Any advice on this part? I needed to force the size of windows and
> hooking
> > `select-window` (via `advice-add`) is apparently not enough to catch all
> > the cases.
>
> It might not help in the case at hand, but instead of advising
> 'select-window' (which won't do the job anyway when a window is
> selected directly via select_window) please add your function to
> 'buffer-list-update-hook'.  Hooking 'select-window' _is_ bad idea,
> always.
>
> martin
>