From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: managing windows in two frames Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: <5229B3E7.4070908@gmx.at> References: <8561uiclrj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5225DB8D.6060709@gmx.at> <858uzcbggs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378464766 26063 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2013 10:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 06 12:52:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHtei-0004iy-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:52:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHtei-0006nd-1U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHteX-0006dg-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHteO-0006c9-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:50193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHteO-0006c2-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.47.44.93] ([62.47.44.93]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MXIov-1VVwOF3vRV-00WE42 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:52:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <858uzcbggs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:FWUWYKzExM251gF723sq7pKmcLHhJ5WF7pyNW+hYTIDcb5/g9W6 ORb940uhP+349wI3aUOeGEpaAyKSsrRl5pPS8kxUEyJ1tPHcoUDcwHmdlEd4Lr2FOy8wmfP 6KzbcSunQb7uyg5YRA8NJXAF+llpmZrg3lDFS3ltw27V6NZEXZGhMB5SaRgXf0fiRhG0TxK Ue1J3TT+ddDb+JPYs5eEQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163213 Archived-At: >>> (let* ((frame (car (filtered-frame-list >> This is overly restrictive. > > I'm not clear what you would relax. We don't want the current frame, and > we want a frame with an available window. > > I guess we could allow creating a new window in an existing frame? No. But consider the case where a user wants to have one and the same frame share just *Help* and *info* output and that frame is the car of filtered-frame-list. Your approach is two-frames-centric - people might use three frames or more. > When I started on this, it would fail after I ran and quit ediff, so I > blamed it on deleted windows. But I have not tried to reproduce that > problem in Emacs 24.3. This problem should not occur in older versions either. martin