Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> Bo Lin skrev:
>> Hi emacs-devel,
>> 
>> I'm getting weird GUI behavior when compiling the latest CVS code
>> (actually I use git to pull from git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git).
>> Attached is a screen shot of what it (started with emacs -Q) looks like.
>> As you can see, the left and right margins are unusually large, I can't
>> `split-window-horizontally' because "Window width 7 too small (after
>> splitting)", and the number returned by `window-width' is clearly wrong.
>> This behavior has been around for at least two months (it has been like
>> this ever since I started trying to compile emacs23). Any suggestions?
>
> Can you post the commands you use to get to the state in the picture?
>
> 	Jan D.

# emacs -Q
  (emacs starts up with no errors, but margins are unusually big)

Ctrl-x 3

Then in *scratch*:

(window-width (selected-window)) Ctrl-J

Then click on mini-buffer to bring up *Messages*.

That's all.

 -Bo