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Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.).
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.). |
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Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:03:39 +0000 |
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Hello, Martin.
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 09:25:52AM +0100, martin rudalics wrote:
> > I see a further problem with the window parameters approach. When a
> > different buffer becomes displayed in such a window, the parameter would
> > stay set. There is a fundamental mismatch here: Follow Modishness is
> > associated with a buffer (not a set of windows); window parameters are
> > fundamentally attached to windows. This clash is bound to cause
> > awkwardnesses.
> One of the worst things I've ever seen in the windows code was the
> mixing in of buffer-local variables, the most notorious representative
> of them being ‘window-size-fixed’. I meanwhile found a workaround so it
> shouldn't be needed any more. Still that variable is a pain.
Presumably a lot of the pain came from the fact that that variable is
attached to a buffer, rather than a window (as it should have been).
> I think I have bothered you long enough with my objections. I consider
> it most unfortunate that your previous solutions were not accepted. I
> could have easily lived with all of them. But I neither use isearch nor
> follow mode so I'm probably not in a good position to judge. The
> current solution introduces a new approach which IMHO doesn't fit with
> the rest of the windows code but let's live with it.
> So thanks for putting so much care into your responses and good luck (no
> sarcasm) with the current scheme.
Thank you for jousting with me! I learnt something (the existence of
window parameters).
> martin
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., (continued)
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/09
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.).,
Alan Mackenzie <=
Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Artur Malabarba, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Juri Linkov, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/07
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., martin rudalics, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Juri Linkov, 2015/11/08
- Re: Framework extending window functions for Follow Mode (etc.)., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/09