On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:37:31PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote:

ediff is a popular and widely-used interactive diff/merge mode included with emacs. It works by opening up a small window that the user keeps in focus while using ediff commands like next patch; if the main emacs window is in focus, none of the ediff key commands are available. The small window generally obscures what the user is interested in and is kept as small and out of the way as possible; by default, it opens up very tiny in the top right of the screen.

The window is already in way just by existing, but having xmonad try to manage it really screws things up. It's in the same class as MPlayer and GIMP; there's no use case for managing it, so do the right thing by default and always float it.

I used title instead of className because the className is emacs, and floating all emacs buffers is definitely not the right thing to do.

Wed Jan 30 18:38:20 EST 2008 Alec Berryman * Always float ediff windows

Actually I don't see the reason to include that configuration in the default manage hook. You can add it to your own one. Since the kind of "float" you are talking about is just a bad hack - a floating layout with no way to rise the focused window - I would suggest to let people decide whether they want to use that hack or, may be, a cleaner SimpleFloat layout. But this is just my opinion. Cheers, Andrea

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:37:31PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote:

ediff is a popular and widely-used interactive diff/merge mode included with emacs. It works by opening up a small window that the user keeps in focus while using ediff commands like next patch; if the main emacs window is in focus, none of the ediff key commands are available. The small window generally obscures what the user is interested in and is kept as small and out of the way as possible; by default, it opens up very tiny in the top right of the screen.

The window is already in way just by existing, but having xmonad try to manage it really screws things up. It's in the same class as MPlayer and GIMP; there's no use case for managing it, so do the right thing by default and always float it.

I used title instead of className because the className is emacs, and floating all emacs buffers is definitely not the right thing to do.

just a side note: with the new WindowArranger it would probably be possible to reimplement ManageHook on a per layout basis... that is to say, you could set managing rules for each different layout. as I said somewhere else, that WindowArranger seems quite powerful to me (tagging and tag based actions on windows should be possible too, and very easily implemented with just pure code), but perhaps I'm just wrong. But I think a look may be worthy. (I'm not going to be the one since I'm not really interested in this kind of stuff). cheers andrea