From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: tino.calancha@gmail.com
Subject: Standard check before creating large num of frames
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:26:43 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609151513030.25124@calancha-pc> (raw)
Dear all,
several functions might create new frames. In particular when
`pop-up-frames' is non-nil, `display-buffer' creates a new frame.
Creating a lot of new frames might be expensive.
Some functions may ask for user confirmation before creating an
many frames.
For instance, see `ibuffer-do-view-1': this function ask for confirmation
before creating > 3 frames.
IMO, it's good if each function creating a large number of frames
do a similar check.
We might add a new option, for instance 'max-number-of-frames'
or 'frame-max-number':
(defcustom max-number-of-frames 3
"Maximum number of frames to create before asking user confirmation."
:version "25.2"
:type 'integer
:group 'convenience)
We might want to standarize the check as well:
(defun frame-create-many-frames-p (nframes &optional prompt)
"Return non-nil if it's OK to create NFRAMES.
If NFRAMES + current number of frames is > `max-number-of-frames',
ask for user confirmation.
An optional arg is the prompt to ask the user."
(let* ((tot (+ nframes (length (frame-list))))
(str (or prompt (format "Really create %s frames? " nframes)))
(res (or (<= tot max-number-of-frames)
(y-or-n-p str))))
res))
Please, let me know your opinions/suggestions about this proposal.
In case we want to add these things: where should they live?
Regards,
Tino
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 6:26 Tino Calancha [this message]
2016-09-15 12:00 ` Standard check before creating large num of frames Stefan Monnier
2016-09-15 15:33 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-15 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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