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From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 17453@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mvuyk6ol.fsf@Vulcan.attlocal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151029232302.GB3812@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:23:02 +0000")

>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> The new functions are window*-start, window*-end, set-window*-start,
> recenter*, pos-visible-in-window*-p, move-to-window*-line, and sit*-for.
> 
> window*-start returns the window-start of the _first_ window in the group,
> window*-end returns the window-end of the _last_ window in the group, and so
> on, all these functions doing the Right Thing for a group of windows.
> sit*-for exists, because Follow Mode needs a chance to resynchronise its
> windows before redisplay happens.

What is the reason for having separate functions such as window*-start,
instead of just taking the car of a list of windows?  I may be missing some
context here, but this sounds like special-casing general behavior, and I'm
wondering why it's necessary...

John



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-31 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140509224458.GA4205@acm.acm>
     [not found] ` <jwva9aqbcl9.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
2015-10-29 23:23   ` bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-31 22:35     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-10-31 23:25       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-31 23:41         ` John Wiegley
2015-11-01 11:59           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01  0:17       ` Drew Adams
2015-10-31 23:13     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-31 23:32       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 12:20         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-01 12:23           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-01 13:52             ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 16:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:27                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 19:46                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-01 20:15                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 21:37                       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-01 20:42                     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-01 20:54                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 22:19                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-31 23:35     ` Juri Linkov
2015-10-31 23:56       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02  0:14         ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-02  3:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-02  9:28           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02 11:53             ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-02 12:14               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-02 12:39                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02 12:35               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02 13:10                 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-02 14:18                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-02 15:44                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02 23:22                       ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-03 12:31                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-02 23:28                     ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-02 23:33             ` Juri Linkov

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