From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'martin rudalics' <rudalics@gmx.at>, 'Emacs Devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: lru-window, window--try-to-split-window, split-width-threshold
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:51:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000f01c9088f$01c541e0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy72i88qg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> >> So you can't fill the buffer _after_ the splitting occurred?
> >> Relying on someone else to always choose the LRU window is
> >> not very clean in the first place.
>
> > Right you are.
> > I use code similar to that used in Emacs. The formatting is
> > done inside `with-output-to-temp-buffer', which displays the
> > buffer only at the end.
>
> This is a more general problem, where you often want to know the width
> of the window that will be used to display a buffer before filling the
> buffer but you also sometimes need to know the content of the
> buffer in order to choose the best size for the window that will
> display it.
>
> In your case you may be able to adjust the buffer's content from
> temp-buffer-show-hook (which is run after the buffer was displayed).
Right. I already looked into that. It was not helpful in my particular case, but
I agree with you in general. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 16:04 lru-window, window--try-to-split-window, split-width-threshold Drew Adams
2008-08-22 17:02 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-22 23:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-27 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:51 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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