From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Standard check before creating large num of frames
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:00:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd1k5ml0h.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.20.1609151513030.25124@calancha-pc
> several functions might create new frames. In particular when
> `pop-up-frames' is non-nil, `display-buffer' creates a new frame.
> Creating a lot of new frames might be expensive.
> Some functions may ask for user confirmation before creating an many
> frames. For instance, see `ibuffer-do-view-1': this function ask for
> confirmation before creating > 3 frames. IMO, it's good if each
> function creating a large number of frames do a similar check. We might
> add a new option, for instance 'max-number-of-frames' or
> 'frame-max-number':
I get the impression that setting pop-up-frames will inevitably lead to
many more frames than 3. IOW setting pop-up-frames non-nil is already
a way to say that you're OK with having many frames.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 6:26 Standard check before creating large num of frames Tino Calancha
2016-09-15 12:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-09-15 15:33 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-15 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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