From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows)
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:50:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481F811D.8070708@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85abj478kc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
> Please don't. I find it a complete abomination that MS Windows'
> scrollbars snap back if you accidentally skid off sideways while
> dragging (dragging exactly vertically is rather hard).
>
> Having this operation resize the windows would be even worse. I don't
> want to be forced into having to steady my hand horizontally when doing
> a vertical operation.
That was my conclusion, indeed.
> The annoyance possibly would be less if the larger of the drag offsets
> (X or Y) would win out, but that means that the drag mode might jump
> from one to the other with a somewhat jarring effect.
I envisioned some sort of "dead angle" where dragging didn't have any
effect. But the transition would have to be done in some smooth way and
I didn't see any great benefits in this so I gave up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 18:16 C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) & C-x 1 (delete-other-windows) Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 18:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-05 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:57 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-05 20:13 ` Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 20:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-05 20:57 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-05 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 21:50 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-05-05 21:35 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-06 1:32 ` David Hansen
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