From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-drag-mode-line should maybe use window-tree Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:20:08 -0500 Message-ID: <87zmngbdts.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <200511251837.jAPIbONx025976@brains.moreideas.ca> <438F8DA5.1040102@ourcomments.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133742155 29851 80.91.229.2 (5 Dec 2005 00:22:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 01:22:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej46R-0000Li-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:21:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej46Y-0003Oz-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej45d-0003Nv-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej45b-0003NV-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej45a-0003NN-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.54] (helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ej45y-0003Y9-4S; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:20:42 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.49.81.194]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051205002008.NUKG26102.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 363F5D75F1; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:20:08 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:22:05 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [0] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46977 Archived-At: > To me the documentation for `adjust-window-trailing-edge' looks like it > is doing the same thing as `enlarge-window' with preserve-before set to > t. Am I missing something? > They are not the same, because adjust-window-trailing-edge will never > delete a window. Could you explain the choice of identifier? I have a hard time understanding what "adjust-window-trailing-edge" can mean. What's a trailing edge? Couldn't we just change the `preserve-before' argument (which is new in Emacs-22 anyway) instead? AFAIK in all the cases where the `preserve-before' argument is useful, it's also useful to avoid deleting windows, but if not, we could have 3 values for `preserve-before', e.g.: - nil: same as before. - `nodelete': behave like adjust-window-trailing-edge. - t: same as above, but can delete windows. Stefan