GNU bug report logs - #13594
24.2.92; [PATCH] compilation-start doesn't consider nil OUTWIN

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.2.92

Done: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 13594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 13594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13594: 24.2.92;	[PATCH] compilation-start doesn't consider
	nil OUTWIN
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:32:37 +0100

> But such some window at any cost should be harmless when the caller goes
> to use the returned window e.g. to get its buffer with `window-buffer', etc.

Returning the selected window is harmless.

> This is why using a hidden window is better, despite its invisibility
> the window will be still correct in all its properties.

Deleting the last visible Emacs frame and subsequently switching off
your machine is not entirely harmless.

martin
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 234 days ago.

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