From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: managing windows in two frames
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:37:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522AF3F0.8070801@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85d2ol57t1.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
>> No. But consider the case where a user wants to have one and the same
>> frame share just *Help* and *info* output and that frame is the car of
>> filtered-frame-list.
>
> So other windows would then be added to it sometimes, which is not what
> the user wants.
>
> A general solution to that sort of problem would require a
> user-specified filter for picking a frame; it could check if the frame
> has *Help* and return nil.
Usually, this is done by making the *Help* frame dedicated. But
dedicated windows are not very popular.
>> Your approach is two-frames-centric - people might
>> use three frames or more.
>
> Yes, more frames requires more a intelligent filter, or a more
> interactive choice of frame (ie prompting with a list).
>
> But you said my current code is "overly restrictive"; here you are
> proposing adding (user-specified) restrictions, not relaxing them.
I meant it's restrictive by paying attention only to the first frame of
what `filtered-frame-list' returns.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-07 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 9:11 managing windows in two frames Stephen Leake
2013-09-03 12:52 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-04 18:16 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-04 18:24 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-04 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-04 21:22 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-06 10:53 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-07 8:49 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-07 9:37 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-07 13:19 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-08 7:56 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-04 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-06 10:52 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-06 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-06 10:52 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-07 8:56 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-07 9:37 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2013-09-07 13:29 ` Stephen Leake
2013-09-03 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-03 14:15 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-03 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-03 16:23 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-03 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-04 6:25 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-04 15:04 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-04 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-06 10:53 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-06 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-06 17:14 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-06 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-07 9:37 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-08 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-09 8:10 ` martin rudalics
2013-09-09 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-04 18:19 ` Stephen Leake
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