From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#888: 23.0.60; window height 2 too small (after splitting)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:39:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C01D61.3050207@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e801c90eab$2ebdffd0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>
> emacs -Q
>
> Manually resize the frame so that it is only a few lines high.
>
> Do almost anything that would normally display another buffer, whether
> in the same window or by splitting the window. For example, do C-h f
> display buffer or do C-x C-b.
>
> You get an error message with the subject line, and no buffer is
> displayed. In fact, I tried to send a bug report with the same small
> frame size, and the *mail* buffer got filled with (only) the error
> message.
>
> This is worse than useless, and represents a regression. If the window
> cannot be split for some reason, then Emacs should do as it did
> before: either use the same window or create a new frame.
Sorry. I have to wrap this part in a condition-case. `split-window'
is too severe here.
Thanks for the report!
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 17:39 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-04 16:27 ` bug#888: 23.0.60; window height 2 too small (after splitting) Drew Adams
2008-09-04 17:39 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-09-05 7:22 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-05 7:26 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-05 7:31 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-07 14:07 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-07 10:30 ` bug#888: marked as done (23.0.60; window height 2 too small (after splitting)) Emacs bug Tracking System
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