AW: [Ecb-list] ECB insinuates all buffers, and other interactions

[Berndl, K. <kla...@sd...>]

>A new installation of ECB on GNU Emacs 21.2 appears to put all open
>buffers in ecb-minor-mode, even those that have nothing to do with it
>(*scratch*, my mail buffer, gnus, etc.). 

Yes, indeed, and this is intented, because ECB is a *global* minor-mode!
ECB must be active in each buffer, but why should this be a problem for
you? For the dedicated part see below...

>Not only that, but it looks like it does set-window-dedicated-p on all
>of them, as well, so I can't switch *any* buffers.

No, it only sets set-window-dedicated-p on the special browsing windows
of ECB, the main edit-area window(s) or the compile-window (if there is
any) is surely not dedicated.

But anyway: Please send us a problem-report generated with
ecb-submit-problem-report otherwise we can not analyse your problems!

>It also doesn't play nicely with my mail client (MH-E) in
>general. Starting MH after ECB causes Emacs to hang and chew up the
>CPU. The reverse, of course, breaks it because the mail window is now
>dedicated -- I can see my mail, but I can't read any of it :). The
>former problem can be averted if I run each application in its own
>frame, but I would rather not do that. My usual mode of operation is to
>run multiple applications in one big frame by saving window
>configurations to registers.

I do not use MH-E, but i suppose for MH-E the same is true as for Gnus:
Gnus and ECB can not run is the same frame at least not with the current
Version of ECB...In general: ECB can probably not run in the same frame
As another application which has ist own window-management.

Storing window-configurations in registers does definitivle not work with
ECB!

>(NB: I reproduced all of these problems under emacs -q, with only the
>requisite variables set.)

To get sure you have to run "emacs -q -no-site-file"

>I'm not sure what can be done about the MH issue, as I don't know whose
>fault it is; however MH-E behaves with every other Emacs application I've
>ever run. 

Yes, i believe that but i also suppose that your other Emacs-applications
do not have such a window-management like ECB

But again. Please report with ecb-submit-problem-report!

Klaus