From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order? Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:51:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83oai0iwbc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5430f5a7-2939-4f96-8c6c-3e820ffcfd6b@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440165142 14854 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 13:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21305@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 15:52:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjp-0002dr-EH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjp-0000Vg-1S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjl-0000Ul-8u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmji-0004Tw-3n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmji-0004Tq-1r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjh-0000Up-P8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21305 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21305-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21305.14401651091883 (code B ref 21305); Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21305) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Aug 2015 13:51:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34313 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjV-0000UJ-43 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:41662) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSmjS-0000UA-Je for 21305@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:51:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTF00L00Q7GGT00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 21305@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:51:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTF00L6LQI2FO20@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:51:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5430f5a7-2939-4f96-8c6c-3e820ffcfd6b@default> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105655 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:21:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 21305@debbugs.gnu.org > > > The order is unspecified, which means the caller should not depend > > on it. I don't think there's anything wrong with that; do you? > > Well, it's certainly the prerogative of designers to decide that > the order is undefined and that users cannot depend on it. In > that case, you can close the bug now. > > But as one user I'm disappointed. I was hoping for a usable > window order. It's the order of traversing the window tree depth-first (as described in the ELisp manual under "Cyclic Window Ordering"). I don't see how saying that would be of any help to users of this function. Describing the order would require a non-trivial amount of text, so without a good reason, I don't think we should add it.