From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: even-window-heights
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:26:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7C42C3.3090201@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h50yp74.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> This variable's docstring says:
>
> If non-nil `display-buffer' will try to even window heights.
> Otherwise `display-buffer' will leave the window configuration alone.
> Heights are evened only when `display-buffer' chooses a window that
> appears above or below the selected window.
>
> And the manual says something similar. But in fact the windows are
> evened only if the new window is shorter than the selected window.
Indeed. Do you think it needs an explanation?
> This has been the case since
>
> revno: 88578
> committer: Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> timestamp: Sat 2008-06-14 08:58:07 +0000
> message:
> (window--even-window-heights): Even window heights
> only if the selected window is higher than WINDOW.
>
> which has no ChangeLog or further explanation.
>
> Martin, do you remember why you made this change?
Bug#410 constituting a regression from the original C behavior. See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-06/msg00166.html
I added a bug reference to the ChangeLog entry (which BTW _did_ exist).
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 2:20 even-window-heights Chong Yidong
2011-09-23 8:26 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2011-09-23 22:54 ` even-window-heights Chong Yidong
2011-09-24 8:22 ` even-window-heights martin rudalics
2011-09-24 11:23 ` even-window-heights Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 12:30 ` even-window-heights martin rudalics
2011-09-24 13:51 ` even-window-heights Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 18:49 ` even-window-heights martin rudalics
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