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<h3>How the "other window" is determined by ECB</h3>
<p>Normally all windows in an Emacs-frame are arranged in a cyclic order
and window-selecting-commands like <code>other-window</code> or
window-scrolling-commands like <code>scroll-other-window</code> choose
simply the next<a rel=footnote href="#fn-1"><sup>1</sup></a> window after the current window as
"other window".
<h4>"Other window"-basics in ECB</h4>
<p>With a typical window-layout of ECB such a cyclic order of
<strong>all</strong> windows in the ECB-frame does not make sense because it
would be not very intuitive and against that what the user wants to
"say" when calling <code>other-window</code> or
<code>scroll-other-window</code>.
<p>Therefore ECB divides the whole set of windows of the ECB-frame in
several subsets:
<ul>
<li>The edit-windows of the edit-area
<li>The special tree-windows for browsing-tasks
<li>The compile-window at the bottom (if there is one)
<li>The minibuffer-window of the ECB-frame (if active)
</ul>
<p>Each of these subsets will be treated as a cyclic ordered subset, i.e.
all windows in each of these subsets are ordered as the function
<code>walk-windows</code> would visit the windows when the windows of a
subset would be the only windows of a
frame<a rel=footnote href="#fn-2"><sup>2</sup></a>.
<h4>Builtin "other window" behaviors of ECB</h4>
<p>ECB now offers to specify the behavior of commands like
<code>other-window</code> or <code>scroll-other-window</code> within the
ECB-frame. This can be done with the option
<code>ecb-other-window-behavior</code>. This option offers several builtin
behaviors:
<ul>
<li>All windows of the ECB-frame are considered
<p>ECB will cycle through all windows of the ECB-frame or scroll simply
the next window in the ECB-frame, means it behaves like the original
<code>other-window</code> rsp. the original
<code>other-window-for-scrolling</code>.
</p><li>Only the windows of the edit-area are considered
<p>ECB will only cycle through the edit-windows of ECB or only scroll
another edit-window. If the selected window is not an edit-window then
all windows are taken into account.
</p><li>The edit-windos and the compile-window are considered
<p>Like above but the compile-window will be added to the subset of the
edit-windows.
</p><li>Behave as smart and intuitive as possible
<p>This is the default behavior of ECB. ECB tries to choose the
<code>other-window</code>-destination or the "other window" to scroll in a
smart and intuitive way: If point is in one of the edit-windows and if
the edit-area is splitted then always the "next" edit-window is
choosen (whereas the next edit-window of the last edit-window is the
first edit-window)- if the edit-area is unsplitted then the
compile-window is used if there is one. In the context of an
<code>other-window</code>-call the <var>ARG</var> of <code>other-window</code> will be
taken into account.
<p>If one of the special ecb-windows is selected then always the "next"
ecb-window is choosen (whereas the next ecb-window of the last
ecb-window is the first ecb-window). In the context of an
<code>other-window</code>-call the <var>ARG</var> of <code>other-window</code> will be
taken into account.
<p>If the compile-window is selected then always the last edit-window
which had the point will be used unless <code>other-window</code> has been
called with a prefix-argument unequal 1.
</ul>
<p>Regardless of the different behaviors above ECB handles the situation
of an active minibuffer during a call to <code>other-window</code> or
<code>scroll-other-window</code> like follows:
<p>If the minibuffer-window is selected then ECB always chooses the
window <code>minibuffer-scroll-window</code> points to (when this variable
is set, otherwise the compile-window or the last selected edit-window
is choosen) when the called command is called to choose the 1. next
window (always true for scrolling another window or true when
<code>other-window</code> called without prefix-arg or with prefix-arg equal
1). Otherwise the window ARG steps away is choosen (in case of
<code>other-window</code>).
<p>If there is an active minibuffer but the minibuffer-window is not
selected then <code>other-window</code> and <code>scroll-other-window</code>
behave like the original version.
<h4>User-defined "other window" behavior</h4>
<p>In addition to the builtin "other window" behaviors ECB offers a
user to completely define for himself how ECB should choose another
window for scrolling it or selecting it. This can be done with the
option <code>ecb-other-window-behavior</code> too because this option can
also have a function-symbol as value:
<p>Such a function gets seven arguments:
<ol type=1 start=1>
</p><li>A canonical list of all currently visible windows of the
<code>ecb-frame</code>
<li>A canonical list of all currently visible edit-windows
<li>A canonical list of all currently visible ecb-windows
<li>The window-object of the compile-window if there is any.
<li>The minibuffer-window of the ECB-frame if there is an active
minibuffer.
<li>The result of the function <code>ecb-where-is-point</code> - see the
documentation of this function for details.
<li>An integer which indicates how many steps away from the current
selected window the "other-window" is. Is nil when this function is
called in another context then for <code>other-window</code>.
</ol>
<p>The function has to return a window-object which is then used as
"other window" for the command <code>other-window</code> or for scrolling
another window (e.g. with <code>scroll-other-window</code>). Such a function
has to handle properly all situation for itself.
<p>Here is an example for such a function:
<br><pre>(defun ecb-get-other-window-smart (win-list
edit-win-list
ecb-win-list
comp-win
minibuf-win
point-loc
nth-window)
(if minibuf-win
;; if we have an active mini-buffer we delegate this to
;; `ecb-get-other-window-minibuf-active'
(ecb-get-other-window-minibuf-active win-list
edit-win-list
ecb-win-list
comp-win
minibuf-win
point-loc
nth-window)
;; here we have no active minibuffer!
(let* ((nth-win (or nth-window 1))
(next-listelem-fcn (if (< nth-win 0)
'ecb-prev-listelem
'ecb-next-listelem)))
(cond ((equal point-loc 'ecb)
(funcall next-listelem-fcn ecb-win-list
(selected-window) nth-win))
((equal point-loc 'compile)
(if (= nth-win 1)
(or (and ecb-last-edit-window-with-point
(window-live-p ecb-last-edit-window-with-point)
ecb-last-edit-window-with-point)
(car edit-win-list))
(funcall next-listelem-fcn
(append edit-win-list (list (selected-window)))
(selected-window)
nth-win)))
(t ;; must be an edit-window
(funcall next-listelem-fcn
(append edit-win-list
(if (and comp-win
(= (length edit-win-list) 1))
(list comp-win)))
(selected-window)
nth-win))))))
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<p>This example implements the builtin smart behavior described above.
<hr><h4>Footnotes</h4>
<ol type="1">
<li><a name="fn-1"></a>
<p><code>other-window</code> allows to select ARG'th
different window, i.e. the window ARG steps away from current window
in the cyclic order of the windows</p>
<li><a name="fn-2"></a>
<p><code>other-window</code> uses the same window-ordering as
<code>walk-windows</code></p>
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