From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: windows saved in variables, and `save-selected-window' Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:12:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87mu54gy70.fsf@web.de> References: <87eeqhd041.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="69129"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Nn69/wrjJOB1Yf6ImsS7ISfMsc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 17:20:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkquB-000HsW-3V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:20:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49816 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkqu9-0001a4-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkqs8-0001YS-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:49534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkqs7-0000bc-8W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkqmu-0008ef-IO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:12:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/15 10:41:20 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 1 X-Spam_score: 0.1 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123399 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > During the set up, the two variables *usually* end up pointing to live > windows (ie, #). Sometimes one of the > variables ends up pointing at a "dead" window: #. Either > way, after the use of `save-selected-window' below, one of the windows > is always dead. > > Obviously I'm just doing this wrong altogether -- can anyone tell me the > correct approach? What does one need to reproduce this? I evaluated your code and enabled `note-a-mode', and afterwards (mapcar #'window-live-p (list window-one window-two)) ==> (t t) Also calling (update-other-window) does not change the result. Michael.