Re: The window-pub branch

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > 1. Automatic vertical window splitting is uneven -- whereas in trunk
 > Emacs (even with tool- and menu- bars on) one gets evenly (vertically)
 > split windows, in window-pub the new window is noticeably higher; could
 > it be that it tries to match height of the new window to the old one
 > _plus_ the GUI bars and mode line?. Somewhat interestingly, doing a
 > vertical split manually with `C-x 2' does produce evenly split windows.

Currently this is by design.  The minimum height of a new window (and
its width) are specified by the min-height (min-width) specifiers and
`display-buffer' tries to make it at least as high (wide) as this at the
expense of the window that was split.  That is, there are two cases:

(1) If the height of the old window is at least as large as two times
     min-height, splitting is done evenly.

(2) If the size of the old window is at least as large as min-height
     plus window-min-height, the new window gets min-height lines and the
     old window the rest.

The purpose of (2) was that applications sometimes want a window with a
specific height and I wanted to accomodate that somehow.

If people think it's not useful or bad, I can easily rewrite that part.
Meanwhile I added an `adjust-height' specifier that allows to directly
specify the desired height so the min-height specifier is probably not
so useful any more.

 > 2. *Completions* display:
 > E.g.: C-h f so TAB ; *Completions* window is displayed
 >       l TAB ; `solitaire' is chosen, *Completions* buffer disappears,
 >       _but_ the *scratch* buffer takes its place instead of deleting the
 >       split
 >       (If you press C-g at this point, the window will be deleted, but
 >       that still doesn't feel right -- it should be deleted as soon as
 >       the *Completions* buffer is buried)

This has been changed recently and I have not yet caught up with that
change.  There's also the problem related by Andrej in another thread.
I'll notify you as soon as I understand what's going on.  Thanks for the
precise test case though, this will make things easier for me.

martin