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Re: Understanding atomic window groups


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Understanding atomic window groups
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 11:11:29 +0200

> AFAICT, that section lists the functions affected by atomic windows,
> but doesn't tell what you said earlier:
>
>> 'quit-window' calls 'window-deletable-p' before it tries to delete a
>> window so it should never cause a "Root of atomic window is root
>> window of its frame" error.  If it does cause an error we have a bug
>> so maybe check again.
>>
>> 'delete-window' OTOH will raise an error when the root of the atomic
>> window is the root of the frame.  If you want to avoid that, typically
>> because most of your users who type C-x 0 expect the selected window
>> to disppear or those typing C-x 1 expect the selected window to become
>> the single window of its frame despite of atomicity, you will have to
>> adjust the behavior with the help of 'delete-window' and
>> 'delete-other-windows' parameters for all involved windows.

I tried to add the according information now.  If I should say more,
please tell me.

> It's up to you whether to describe the behavior with atomic windows
> where the functions are described or where the atomic windows are
> described.  In the latter case, the description of the functions
> should have a cross-reference to the atomic-windows section.

Cross references should be there now.

martin



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