From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to restore the layout? Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:51:45 -0400 Message-ID: <857ghdti3i.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <51C5AA68.4000204@alice.it> <51C9C790.3020407@gmx.at> <51CA0D4C.7080204@alice.it> <51CC3E42.7020409@alice.it> <51CC4CC1.3030202@alice.it> <51CC8403.1030009@gmx.at> <51CCA56A.8000508@gmx.at> <51CCA7DC.8060605@gmx.at> <83fvw2g44j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372495928 23724 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2013 08:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 08:52:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 29 10:52:08 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 1Usqt5-00042L-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:52:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usqt4-00083p-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usqt1-00083k-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usqt0-00019B-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]:60214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usqsz-000196-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from TAKVER ([unknown] [71.241.247.125]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MP500EVYCMEMP70@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:51:51 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:51:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.3 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:161270 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > >> And more generally, it's probably better to avoid opening frames on >> other displays/terminals than "the current one". > > Why? If the user had them open in other displays, and then saved the > session, why/how would be better not to restore them as they were? > >> OTOH it might make >> sense to open the same windows&frames even if "the current display" is >> different from the one last time. > > Yes. But how to choose what to do? Both behaviors are reasonable. Prompt the user. and/or provide a user option to override the prompt. -- -- Stephe