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bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?
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Drew Adams |
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bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order? |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:08:25 -0700 (PDT) |
> > > The order is unspecified, which means the caller should not
> > > depend on it. I don't think there's anything wrong with that;
> > > do you?
> >
> > Well, it's certainly the prerogative of designers to decide that
> > the order is undefined and that users cannot depend on it. In
> > that case, you can close the bug now.
> >
> > But as one user I'm disappointed. I was hoping for a usable
> > window order.
>
> It's the order of traversing the window tree depth-first (as
> described in the ELisp manual under "Cyclic Window Ordering").
If so, then the order is not undefined. (It's a design decision
whether Emacs wants to commit to supporting this order or just
tell users that the order is undefined, keeping its options open.)
> I don't see how saying that would be of any help to users of this
> function.
Well, it apparently won't help me in my quest for a chronological
ordering of windows for the same buffer by access time.
But I think it would be helpful to tell users that the order is
the same as that described in `Cyclic Window Ordering'.
> Describing the order would require a non-trivial amount of text, so
> without a good reason, I don't think we should add it.
How is it more difficult than saying that the order is the same as
that specified in `Cyclic Window Ordering', and xreffing that node?
Perhaps I'm missing something. And I will leave it up to you to
decide what, if anything, should be said about the order. Thanks
for thinking about it.
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/20
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, martin rudalics, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, martin rudalics, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21
- bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/21