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bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order?
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21305: 25.0.50; `get-buffer-window-list' doc - what order? |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:51:35 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:21:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 21305@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > 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"). I don't see how
saying that would be of any help to users of this function.
Describing the order would require a non-trivial amount of text, so
without a good reason, I don't think we should add 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 <=
- 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?, 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