Subject: bug#10186: 23.3; save-some-buffers not making review windows large enough

From: Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:48:24 -0500

on Fri Dec 02 2011, martin rudalics <rudalics-AT-gmx.at> wrote:

>> No, my frame is huge.  The problem is that it is already divided up,
>> including a small window that sometimes/often gets chosen by Emacs for
>> display-buffer.
>
> This happens because `display-buffer-use-some-window' tries the least
> recently used window first.  If that window happens to be small ...
>
> In any case this sounds like a more general problem with your setup so
> maybe something like the following would help
>
> (defun make-small-windows-softly-dedicated ()
>   (walk-window-tree
>    (lambda (window)
>      (cond
>       ((and (> (window-total-size window) 10)
> 	    (eq (window-dedicated-p window) 'too-small))
>        (set-window-dedicated-p window nil))
>       ((and (<= (window-total-size window) 10)
> 	    (not (window-dedicated-p window)))
>        (set-window-dedicated-p window 'too-small))))))
>
> (add-hook 'window-configuration-change-hook 'make-small-windows-softly-dedicated)
>
> replacing the "10" by a value of your choice.

Thanks; I've been using your trick for a few days and it seems to be
working out; at least, I have not had much to complain about.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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