Re: Moving vertical boundaries after C-x 3

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

Richard Stallman writes:
 > When you click on a mode line to delete "the window", it is clear
 > which window that is.  The mode line belongs to a window.
 > 
 > When you click on the vertical line, which window gets deleted?

The window on the left.

 > Is it the one whose scroll bar you're under?

Have you tried this?  Using the default toolkit there is no vertical line when
the scroll bar is present.  This is true both with the fringe (where there are
narrow margins) and without it.

 > That would be the logical answer.  But I think it will not be very clear to
 > users, and therefore I think that it is better not to make this change.

The same logic can be applied to mouse-split-window-vertically (currently on
[vertical-line C-mouse-2]).  Which window gets split?  You only have to try
it once to find out, it's not rocket science.

Anyway it's a bit tricky selecting the vertical line, but this is true for
resizing.  I think it would be sensible to add these bindings and make the
vertical line a few pixels wider.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob