* frame moves down when it should not
@ 2007-07-24 4:17 Drew Adams
2007-07-25 0:03 ` Jason Rumney
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2007-07-24 4:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bug-Gnu-Emacs
Trying again. The bug is quite old (at least as far
back as Emacs 20). It makes frame movement commands
do the wrong thing whenever the menu-bar wraps.
> From: Drew Adams Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: set-frame-position - is it a
> bug?]
>
> This 2005 bug was never fixed. It is apparently a Windows-only bug. Could
> this be fixed?
>
> > From: Richard Stallman Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:37 AM
> > Would someone please try to debug this?
> >
> > To: "Emacs-Pretest-Bug" <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:56:26 -0700
> >
> > This bug was apparently never fixed. To reproduce, simply
> > resize a frame horizontally so that the menu-bar wraps, then
> > change the 'left frame parameter.
> >
> > (setq left-pos (cdr (assq 'left (frame-parameters))))
> > (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame)
> > (list (cons 'left (+ 30 left-pos))))
> >
> > The frame moves down, as well as right.
> >
> > This is annoying if you have, for instance, a key bound to a
> > command to move the frame right. Repeated use of this key
> > sends the frame downward diagonally. Use of the complementary
> > key to move the frame left sends it downward as well, so the
> > two are not even inverses if the menu-bar wraps.
> >
> > Similarly, a command to move the frame up sends it down
> > instead. So, if you have keys bound to commands that move it
> > up and down, the up movement is
> > down instead - the two are not inverses if the menu-bar wraps.
> >
> > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:39 AM
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Cc: Emacs-Devel
> > Subject: RE: set-frame-position - is it a bug?
> >
> > the intention of the following code
> > (setq fpx (cdr (assoc 'left (frame-parameters))))
> > (setq fpy (cdr (assoc 'top (frame-parameters))))
> > (setq fpx (+ 1 fpx))
> > (set-frame-position (next-frame) fpx fpy)
> > is to move the frame honizontally 1 pixel right;
> > but as a side-effect I get a vertical move as well.
> > Is there something wrong with my code?
> >
> > The code looks OK to me.
> >
> > Is your menu-bar (or tool-bar) wider than your frame, so
> > that it wraps around? That will cause the behavior you describe.
> >
> > Actually, now that I think of it, we should probably consider
> > this an Emacs bug, so I'm cc'ing the emacs-devel list.
> > Thanks for bringing this up - I've been aware of it for a long
> > time, but it never occurred to me to file a bug.
> >
> > Bug: If menu-bar is wider than frame, so it wraps, then
> > set-frame-position gets it wrong, in the manner described above.
In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'
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* Re: frame moves down when it should not
2007-07-24 4:17 frame moves down when it should not Drew Adams
@ 2007-07-25 0:03 ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-25 0:11 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jason Rumney @ 2007-07-25 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs
Drew Adams wrote:
> Trying again. The bug is quite old (at least as far
> back as Emacs 20). It makes frame movement commands
> do the wrong thing whenever the menu-bar wraps.
>
I've checked a fix for this into the Emacs 22 branch.
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* RE: frame moves down when it should not
2007-07-25 0:03 ` Jason Rumney
@ 2007-07-25 0:11 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2007-07-25 0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Rumney; +Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs
> Drew Adams wrote:
> > Trying again. The bug is quite old (at least as far
> > back as Emacs 20). It makes frame movement commands
> > do the wrong thing whenever the menu-bar wraps.
> >
>
> I've checked a fix for this into the Emacs 22 branch.
Thanks very much. That was quick!
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