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From: <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>
To: <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Patch: prefer-window-split-horizontally
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:46:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A47B192B0358794C958615D788BF7FB703C40B18@mucmail1.sdm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vebfwmyd.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de>

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
>>>> Changing the behavior of split-window so that it uses something
>>>> like split-window-function only makes sense if we want to change
>>>> the behavior seen by current callers of this function.
>> 
>>> That's the case, isn't it?
>> 
>> Is it, really?  As far as I can tell, you only want to change the
>> behavior in the following cases: when called from display-buffer and
>> when called interactively.  Since split-window has currently no
>> key-binding, calling it interactively is not very common and we can
>> just as well create a new command split-window-sensibly which obeys
>> split-window-sensibly-function (and then have display-buffer use this
>> function as well).
> 
> Indeed, you're right.  So I suggest to do it that way.
> 
>>> And the behavior would only change if users modify
>>> `split-window-function'.  So I don't see a problem here.
>> 
>> Think of those users who want a fancy split-window-function for
>> display-buffer but still want the layout of their
>> Gnus/ECB/MPC/GUD/ProofGeneral/... to appear correctly without having
>> to tweak their source code or beg the authors to adapt their code to
>> the new behavior.
> 
> Look at Klaus.  He's begging to adapt his code. ;-)

then you have completely misunderstood my posting ;-)
i just offered to *check* if there could be problems within ECB...
adapting is a complete other chapter ;-)

> 
>>> I cannot follow you completely.  In most cases it's not the caller
>>> who should decide how windows are split but the user, who wants to
>>> use his screen as good as possible.
>> 
>> Yes, in *most* cases, maybe, but not all.  Better have two separate
>> function for the two separate cases.
> 
> Agreed.  And it still gives users all possibilities they need.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 16:34 Patch: prefer-window-split-horizontally Tassilo Horn
2007-08-14 16:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-15 18:22   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15 18:47     ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16  2:42       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-16  5:52         ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-14 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-15  5:35   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-15 15:24     ` Davis Herring
2007-08-15 15:49       ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-15 18:22   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15 18:57     ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-15 19:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-15 19:53     ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-15 20:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-16  6:28         ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 13:11           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-16 13:38             ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 14:00               ` klaus.berndl
2007-08-16 14:37                 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 14:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-16 14:52                 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 15:46                   ` klaus.berndl [this message]
2007-08-15 23:36     ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-16  0:45       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-16 20:21         ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-16  2:42       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-16 20:23         ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-15  5:52 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-15  6:27   ` Tassilo Horn

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