Re: Run `window-configuration-change-hook` in Lisp code?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

> The workaround to fix this issue is to call the following after the text
> scale is changed (run-hooks 'window-configuration-change-hook)

From where?

The way I see it, another workaround is for those packages which depend
strongly on such single-size monospace text to add the relevant function
to `text-scale-mode-hook`.

> OP wants to know whether it is good practice or bad practice to run the
> `window-configuration-change-hook` hooks from a third-party package in this
> situation, as a workaround to resolve the issue described above. (Check:
> https://codeberg.org/joostkremers/visual-fill-column/pulls/16 ).

I'd put it in the bad practice column (especially since that hook
is documented to be run in a fairly special way which `run-hooks`
doesn't follow).

Then again, looking at that patch I can't understand why it would work.
Does it work?  If so how?  That code is run only when `visual-fill-mode`
is enabled, AFAICT, so whether it runs
`window-configuration-change-hook` won't make any difference when
text-scale is used.


        Stefan