From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: 44483@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44483: 27.1.50; Window parameter `min-margins' doesn't split window in half
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:29:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837dqy8hki.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d00qihb0.fsf@fastmail.fm> (message from Joost Kremers on Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:25:07 +0100)
> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: 44483@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:25:07 +0100
>
> > That expectation is incorrect by default.
>
> Well, let me put it this way: If I split a window in which the margins are nil,
> `split-window-right`, in my experience, always splits the window in half.
> (Perhaps there are cases where that is not guaranteed, I don't know, but I've
> never seen any.)
The equal sizes are not guaranteed, but that doesn't mean they will
never happen. Especially when you put Emacs in an "impossible"
situation, where a simple split will not work.
> > To have the windows
> > equally-sized, you need to set window-combination-resize to t, AFAIU,
> > otherwise Emacs makes no promise that your expectation will be heeded.
>
> A quick check suggests that `window-combination-resize' has no effect here. I
> still get the 1/3 - 2/3 split at least some of the time.
<Shrug> It did work for me, so I'm unsure what's going on. Though I
couldn't have a window with 283 columns to begin with, so maybe it
depends on the actual sizes.
> (Mind you, I'm
> splitting a window that's the single window in its frame
So did I.
> so AFAIU there is no window combination to speak of, and
> `window-combination-resize' should have no visible effect, from what
> I can tell from its documentation.)
I think you take the name of the variable too literally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-06 14:09 bug#44483: 27.1.50; Window parameter `min-margins' doesn't split window in half Joost Kremers
2020-11-06 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:25 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-06 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-06 18:12 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-06 20:36 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-07 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-08 15:00 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2021-10-11 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 17:18 ` martin rudalics
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