From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dragging to resize windows Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:13:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4D79D9A8.2070202@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299831262 1250 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 08:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: smclean0640@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 09:14:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxxUH-00057W-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:14:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxxUG-0003JC-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39269 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxxTb-0003He-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:13:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxxTZ-000372-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:34536) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxxTZ-000362-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2011 08:13:29 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-42-56.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.42.56]) [62.47.42.56] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 11 Mar 2011 09:13:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+I4ZpuXCiIsWW4VLStsu7qgf+x7t0fp8nCZwnoU+ joRu2IeWqpZYxD User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-References: 87aah9117r.fsf@S0106001636ac5854.work X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79956 Archived-At: > I use GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of > 2010-12-11 on brahms, modified by Debian. I would like to use the mouse > to change window sizes (by clicking and dragging) but I find it > particularly difficult. The mouse cursor changes to <-|-> (for example) > but dragging it does not seem to "grab". Is there anything I can > customize to make dragging windows more friendly? Emacs calls this dragging a modeline (to modify the height of windows) and dragging a vertical divider (to modify the width of windows). Can you please give a bit more details about how these don't work on your system? From "<-|->" I conclude that you want to drag a vertical divider which is indeed tricky and won't work if you have scrollbars and no modelines. The only location where the mouse "grabs" in this case is the region between two modelines. martin