From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.windows,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Re: Patch to fix frame positioning with negative top/leftvalues on Windows Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:38:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120938976 12340 80.91.229.2 (9 Jul 2005 19:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francis Litterio , help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 21:56:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrLQk-0005gi-PF for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrLSE-0000BL-Jn for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrLOa-000776-Jh for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrLOV-00074c-Ak for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrLOT-00070x-Sw; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DrLI2-0000Gf-VX; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j69Jdpch004327; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 20:39:52 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895EFDDD09; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 20:40:17 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:16:45 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion forum for users of the GNU Emacs port to Windows List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.windows:2769 gmane.emacs.devel:40699 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40699 "Drew Adams" writes: > > Windows, when you evaluate this Elisp code: > > > > (make-frame '((top . -1) (left . -1))) > > > > the new frame will not be positioned with its bottom-right > corner in the > > bottom-right of the display. > I don't understand your reply, sorry. Are you saying that Francis's bug fix > will break "..." or that the reported bug (symptom quoted above) will break > "..."? Are you saying we shouldn't try to fix this bug because that might > break something else? I didn't understand the bug fix. I thought it was changing the way the frame was positioned when negative arguments are given, however it seems that misfeature already exists, and this fix was only a subtle change to that misfeature. So this bug fix is not the problem, it is the misfeature of treating negative coordinates specially.