From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode. Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:22 -0700 Organization: New Artisans LLC Message-ID: References: <20140509224458.GA4205@acm.acm> <20151029232302.GB3812@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446330950 20396 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2015 22:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17453@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 31 23:35:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZsekW-0001dA-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:35:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsekV-0004B3-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsekF-0004Ay-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsekB-0002Vg-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]:33026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsekB-0002Vb-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: by padhy1 with SMTP id hy1so102189882pad.0 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id :references:user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=6LRnUMgZiB/qph/3fRo1OPsdwXfdYrU+mjH4DypTvh4=; b=Yvbf5/MZDNNcYiJPjn3LeS0nSxM9HkCy4VZFpXYFFUwYqi3GEjyn4wWMJw0hnh2u59 vHx88zuSpaMFcIEKA31RtWkf5BJUCPtO235sBQkWFQ2dia0KHqdc+bs6WMVQq2mbSUXX pRZno1PoilGADMbdQ7euk+v8bIvT5XQGb1zgWWjY/TSdKh9V6aaHzZx8lg+z7udIyogt NAXSE6eIvZotHGZGVXOigS3Aa9dQUBS8iNYL+TP9JdomdyuRDahV/ylZhh6Npjms4RNk eey3PO/pwn7J0mJZoBJSz/dk9eye/kqd4JdRkb/ZRG8W0thaDVvIR5hDO0Sek0ztFWPH yufw== X-Received: by 10.68.239.131 with SMTP id vs3mr8775556pbc.61.1446330926576; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Vulcan.attlocal.net (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ey17sm15682471pac.26.2015.10.31.15.35.25 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by Vulcan.attlocal.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1B5251022C328; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:35:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20151029232302.GB3812@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:23:02 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Alan Mackenzie , Stefan Monnier , 17453@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193037 Archived-At: >>>>> Alan Mackenzie writes: > The new functions are window*-start, window*-end, set-window*-start, > recenter*, pos-visible-in-window*-p, move-to-window*-line, and sit*-for. > > window*-start returns the window-start of the _first_ window in the group, > window*-end returns the window-end of the _last_ window in the group, and so > on, all these functions doing the Right Thing for a group of windows. > sit*-for exists, because Follow Mode needs a chance to resynchronise its > windows before redisplay happens. What is the reason for having separate functions such as window*-start, instead of just taking the car of a list of windows? I may be missing some context here, but this sounds like special-casing general behavior, and I'm wondering why it's necessary... John