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Conflict between ERC mode tracking and ibuffer window shrinking

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: John Paul Wallington <jpw <at> gnu.org>, Michael Olson <mwolson <at> gnu.org>,
        Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#858: Conflict between ERC mode tracking and ibuffer window shrinking
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:36:17 +0200

CC-ing Keegan because Bug #466 describes another problem with ERC and
windows.

>> There is a bug when using conjointly these two features. Here are the
>> relevant portions of configuration :
>>
>> ;;make ibuffer resize itself to its buffer size
>> (setq ibuffer-use-other-window t)
>> (setq ibuffer-default-shrink-to-minimum-size t)
>>
>> No specific configuration for erc, just enabling tracker is enough.
>> Then, run erc, and, in any erc buffer, call ibuffer. The screen
>> briefly flashes as an ERC window opens then disappears, and the
>> ibuffer window is reduced to a much smaller size than what it would be
>> outside ERC. I think the issue is erc's hook to
>> window-configuration-change somehow messing with ibuffer, but I'm not
>> experienced enough to find where the bug is.

Can't offer much insight but processing window-configuration-change
hooks has changed with Emacs 23.  So this

(defun erc-track-modified-channels ()
  "Hook function for `erc-insert-post-hook' to check if the current
buffer should be added to the modeline as a hidden, modified
channel.  Assumes it will only be called when current-buffer
is in `erc-mode'."
  (let ((this-channel (or (erc-default-target)
			  (buffer-name (current-buffer)))))
    ...			

might have been broken for some reason.  To verify, someone would have
to try with Emacs 22 and 23 inserting just before the `let' something
like

(unless (eq major-mode 'erc-mode)
  (message "Not in erc-mode ..."))

and look whether it triggers.

martin

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