Re: bug of display-table & make-glyph-code

[Stefan Monnier]

> Aren't all your windows dedicated, thus it wouldn't make any difference
> for you?

I wasn't talking about my own case.

> For other users, a dedicated window might express some kind of desire to
> not have Emacs touch that window if possible.  Personally, I have no
> preferences here.  I'd just wanted to propose the OP a way to get his old
> behavior back.

I understand.  But I'd just want a clearer explanation about why that would
be a better choice in general (or even in his particular case).

>> I'm experimenting with a feature that marks some frames as "balanced" such
>> that any window-creation/deletion or frame resizing causes the windows to be
>> rebalanced with balance-windows or balance-windows-area.  In such
>> a situation, whether "| a | b |" is split as "|a|c| b |" or as "| a |c|b|"
>> doesn't matter that much, since that'll be rebalanced to something visually
>> identical anyway.

> Would this clash with `temp-buffer-resize-mode'?

I don't think it's incompatible.  It may require extra code to handle it
well, of course.


        Stefan