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Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:52:10 +0900 |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> It could be useful for very specific cases,
>> but it seems somehow wrong to have it as a global setting.
>
> No reason given? What good to others is a judgment with no supporting
> rationale, arguments or evidence?
The main problem is that I think it often depends on the buffer contents
(or etc) as to whether such window-adaptation is useful.
For instance, I shrink text for several reasons:
1) To see more of the buffer at once; in this case, I probably don't
want the window to shrink. This is probably the most common case
for me.
2) To shrink a short buffer to take up less space, e.g. a help buffer;
in this case, I often do want the window to shrink, or even better,
to be re-fit to the buffer contents (like the help display
functions do initially).
3) To shrink a buffer that I want to keep on screen so I can keep an
eye on it, but in many cases, only really care about the last
bit -- e.g., a compile buffer, or log buffer which is being
updated. Often my goal is to make the window showing this buffer
as small as possible or a little larger. [and I often shrink the
font to some absurdly small size, since I care more about motion
and text-shape than actual contents]
So, really I want the behavior to vary depending on the situation; a
single "adapt windows" or "don't adapt windows" doesn't really suffice
for my usage. However, a "clever" function that encodes my preferences
(as noted above) might be something I'd like to use.
That's why I like a hook-based situation (see earlier patch) that can
examine the situation and do something appropriate in an easily
user-adaptable way.
-Miles
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- RE: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Drew Adams, 2009/08/09
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/09
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Miles Bader, 2009/08/09
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/10
- RE: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Drew Adams, 2009/08/10
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Miles Bader, 2009/08/10
- RE: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Drew Adams, 2009/08/10
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/10
- RE: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Drew Adams, 2009/08/10
- Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/10