Re: RE: Making windows have same number of columns

[daniela-spit@gmx.it]

> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 12:01 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Stephen Berman" <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, daniela-spit@gmx.it
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: Making windows have same number of columns
>
> > Changing the font size with text-scale-adjust has no affect on
> > window-body-width; you can only change that by using
> > shrink-window-horizontally or enlarge-window-horizontally if your frame
> > has two or more side-by-side windows, or else if you change the width
> > of the frame.
>
> This doesn't directly address the original question, but FWIW:
>
> Library `face-remap+.el' makes the `text-scale-*'
> functions respect this new user option:
>
> ,----
> | text-scale-resize-window is a variable defined in `face-remap+.el'.
> | Its value is t
> |
> | Documentation:
> | Non-nil means text scaling resizes the window or frame accordingly.
> | For example, if you use `C-x C--' (`text-scale-decrease')' to make the
> | text smaller, then the window or frame is made smaller by a similar
> | factor.
> |
> | If the window is not alone in its frame, then the window is resized.
> | Otherwise, the frame is resized (provided you also use library
> | `fit-frame.el').  The frame is always resized both horizontally and
> | vertically.
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> One aim behind this is to not waste horizontal
> whitespace in the window when you reduce the
> displayed text size.

Spot on, that is the fundamental problem.

> You can likely use similar code to get the
> requested effect.
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/face-remap%2b.el
>
>