From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 33254@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33254: 26.1.50; Fixed-size windows break 'balance-windows'
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:15:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7moepcl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BDF1457.3060005@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:46:31 +0100)
> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:46:31 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: 33254@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> No. It works with Emacs 23.
> >
> > Still, that's a very long time. Why is it urgent to fix this in 26.2?
>
> It's not the visible behavior that's disquieting me. It's rather the
> fact that 'balance-windows-1' goes on calculating all sorts of things
> and finally 'balance-windows' sumbits a wrongly calculated structure
> to 'window-resize-apply' which only gets caught by window_resize_check
> at a very, very late stage. Ideally, window_resize_check would emit a
> warning in such a case, but I never got around to write it.
>
> I think the bug happens to users of 'balance-windows' all the time but
> they hardly notice because for that it needs at least three windows,
> one of them of fixed size. With my example it's barely noticeable at
> all. Also it's a plain thinko and probably not that urgent so I can
> make the change on Emacs 27 only as well.
OK, let's have it one emacs-26.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-04 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 10:18 bug#33254: 26.1.50; Fixed-size windows break 'balance-windows' martin rudalics
2018-11-04 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-04 13:32 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-04 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-04 15:46 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-04 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-11-05 9:33 ` martin rudalics
2018-11-05 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-08 8:43 ` martin rudalics
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