bug#17453: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.).

[Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>]

>> For consistency with other related names it could have the same prefix, e.g.
>> "window-group-recenter".
>
> Or even "recenter-window-group", since "window-group" isn't strictly a
> prefix in a lot of the other cases anyway.

Maybe "recenter-window-group" in the sense of "recenter a window in the
window group" as opposed to "window-group-recenter" in the sense of
"recenter the whole window group"?

>> Another thing that disturbs me is moving lazy-highlighting checks
>> to a new function isearch-lazy-highlight-maybe-new-loop.
>
> What disturbs you about this change in particular?

The same consequences you mentioned earlier: various time periods
of lazy-highlighting staying active.

>> What do you think about moving only window-checking into new function
>> i.e. only checks for window-start/window-end/etc that need (sit-for 0)
>> and leaving other checks in isearch-lazy-highlight-new-loop?
>
> Actually, I think that "(sit-for 0)" isn't needed - I left it in to deal
> with isearch-lazy-highlight-initial-delay being set to 0, thinking that
> Follow Mode's post-command-hook might "not have had time" to run.  But
> surely post-command-hook will be called before checking timers.  I'll
> need to look at the source code (probably keyboard.c) to be absolutely
> sure of this.
>
> I don't think splitting the checks between
> isearch-lazy-highlight-new-loop (in the command loop) and a function
> triggered by a timer is a good idea.  I tried it out, and it kind of
> jars when the lazy highlighting sometimes stays 0.25s, sometimes goes
> instantly.  How about maybe ...
>
> How about maybe putting the test for new highlighting in Isearch's
> post-command-hook (and using the APPEND argument of `add-hook' to make
> sure Isearch's post-hook-function comes after Follow Modes's)?  That
> way, all the lazy h. would be removed immediately after the command, as
> at present.

You could try to append a new follow+isearch specific hook
to post-command-hook in follow.el, if this helps.

>> Would this help to avoid new problems such as un-highlighting
>> postponed until the timer fires?
>
> Is this actually a problem?  I played with Emacs a little with that
> un-highlighting strategy, and didn't find it any more disturbing than
> the 0.25s gap between old highlighting going and new highlighting
> arriving.

We need to test the same in all modes that use lazy-highlighting too.