> If what Martin suggested somehow doesn't fit the bill

It doesn't, because it deals with advising `select-window` while the main
issue here is that I resize windows in the `window-size-change-functions`
hook (albeit using a guard to avoid infinite recursion) and I can't come up
any workarounds for that.

On 2 May 2018 at 17:06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 15:27:12 +0200
> > Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>,
> >       martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, 31312@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Is there a better way to achieve what I want?
>
> If what Martin suggested somehow doesn't fit the bill, and no other
> ideas are brought up, then I prefer to discuss new features or
> infrastructure to satisfy similar needs, rather than force
> applications to use such fragile techniques.  E.g., we could provide
> some customizable controls in the code that resizes windows when
> needed.
>