Re: 23.0.60; Resizing may delete windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Michael Kifer wrote:
> > > I suggest you set `window-min-height'
> > > buffer-locally to 2 in the ediff control panel and look what happens
> > > when the frame gets resized.  If the window still goes away we have a
> > > bug.
> > Thanks, that cures the problem.
> >
> > Michael, could you please add that?
>
> OK. However, I do think that deleting windows just like that is too
> aggressive and counter-intuitive.

Thanks. Yes, it really looks like that.

> > (And please make the control panel 
> > window dedicated during ediff. It really is not useful for something 
> > else then ;-) )
>
> No, dedicated windows in frames that have other windows are too troublesome.
> They often surprise the user.

What is the problem? I do not understand. That little window just exists 
when ediff is active on that frame, right?

> That little ediff window does not need to be dedicated, since nothing else
> gets into it unless you try hard :-)

If you use Emacs client then new files are opened in the ediff control 
window.