Re: 23.0.60; Resizing may delete windows

[kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)]

> > There are cases when ediff can be suspended. In that case the small window
> > should be deleted. There are cases when several ediff sessions are active
> > at the same time. Doing all this properly with dedicated windows seems too
> > much trouble with little payoff. But, as I said, I'll take another look to
> > see if this can be done without major complications.
> 
> 
> The documentation for set-window-dedicated-p says that the dedicated 
> window will not display any other buffer than the one it currently displays.
> 
> Does ediff really use that little window to display other buffers? 
> Otherwise it looks to me that there should be no problem just making 
> that little window dedicated.

This has to do with the heuristics that ediff uses when it decides how to
place buffers in the multiframe setup. As I said, I'll see if there is a
simple way to make the control window dedicated without complicating those
heuristics.

> (BTW, why does the function name has "-p" at the end?)

No idea. (Not my fault. :)


	--michael