From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Morgan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12380: other window related commands broken Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:16:43 -0700 Message-ID: <504A724B.3020202@sprynet.com> References: <504A43D2.1010307@sprynet.com> <504A5866.9010009@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347056268 12599 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 22:17:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 22:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12380@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 00:17:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TA6s1-0003Sx-TH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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However, retesting with "emacs -Q" gives the same behavior. Also, the menu only has "Send Bug Report..." which doesn't work for me "Wrong type argument: string, nil" after I enter a subject title (never having set up emacs to handle mail). Inside the unsent email buffer was this interesting looking text (and it looked like it would go to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so I'm cc'ing that: In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.24.11) of 2012-08-27 on fiona Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11204000 Configured using: `configure '--srcdir=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.2-1/src/emacs-24.2' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datarootdir=/usr/share' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs' '-C' '--without-gsettings' '--without-gconf' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.2-1/build=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.2-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.2-1/src/emacs-24.2=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.2-1' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/ncursesw' 'LIBS=' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Doug On 9/7/2012 1:26 PM, martin rudalics wrote: >> Edit a file >> C-x 2 >> (OK, now you have a two windows split horizontally) >> C-x C-b >> One of the windows **splits vertically**(!!) to show the buffer menu. > > With emacs -Q here the lower window is used. > >> Older versions of emacs (I don't know how far back you have to go) >> use the "other" window of the two horizontally split window to >> display the menu. The old way is by far the better way. The same >> thing happens with C-x 4 C-f and I think other C-x 4 commands. All >> make for annoying work cleaning up your windows after the unwanted >> vertical splits happen. > > Please test with emacs -Q and from the Help menu use the entry > "How to Report a Bug" in order to provide the necessary information. > > Thanks, martin > >