From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: moving window handling into lisp Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4A8D66DC.5030707@gmx.at> References: <4A89AA46.6050502@gmx.de> <4A8BC2CD.5060303@gmx.de> <4A8BF3E0.5090304@gmx.at> <4A8D375D.9090905@gmx.de> <4A8D46DA.4090500@gmx.at> <87skfmfxeh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250780916 1946 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2009 15:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 17:08:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Me9Fb-0006Rx-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Me9Fb-0005fF-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Me9FX-0005ew-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Me9FS-0005dL-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41249 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Me9FS-0005dE-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41552) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Me9FR-0007MV-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2009 15:08:15 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-53-48.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.53.48]) [62.47.53.48] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 20 Aug 2009 17:08:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sb2swiqds7yDi9nUXzcoLM88YQsaINMlM/QTppw RmCsVYJrlIe++o User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <87skfmfxeh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114445 Archived-At: >> Not really. Any window-manager has to deal with the possibility that a >> window gets to small when its parent-window shrinks. All we can do is >> make such cases occur rarely, in practice. > > Well, one could just stop shrinking the window. There's always a corner case where you can't (unless you use zero-size windows). What I wanted (and still want) to express is that the the cases where we really _have to_ delete windows because there's no other choice are very rare. And in those cases we shouldn't care too much, IMHO. > To wit: in single-window frames, the contents get scrolled left/right as > needed to have the cursor on-frame. In multiple-window frames, one > could equally well scroll the whole window configuration. Sure, C-x o > might cause window borders to jump around... > > It might at least keep windows accessible in a somewhat > predictable/intuitive manner. This would be a solution, indeed. For Emacs 25.1, though ;-) martin