Re: Make window-list return windows for all frames

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:03:53 +0200
> 
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> 
> >>
> >> It is also about the API, perhaps it is just me, but I expected 
> >> window-list to
> >> take 't for the frame and consider all frames, because of get-buffer-window
> >> doing so.
> >>
> >
> > The problem I see is that twelve window-related functions (next-window,
> > previous-window, window-list-1, get-buffer-window, walk-windows,
> > get-window-with-predicate, get-lru-window, get-mru-window, 
> > get-largest-window,
> > get-buffer-window-list, one-window-p, delete-windows-on) already accept t 
> > for
> > their ALL-FRAMES argument, together with the symbol 'visible, the number 0, 
> > and
> > a frame.  Why would window-list only accept t?
> 
> Then I will agree with you :). Allow frame/all-frames to mean the same in all
> places and thus easier to learn/use.
> 
> Yes, window-list and window-list-1 becaomes the same, just with arguments in
> different order. Could even remove c version of window-list, and implement it 
> as
> a call to window-list-1. Less code, less maintanance.

Martin, are there any reason we'd not want window-list to accept t as
the FRAME argument?