From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20183@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55953AFC.5080307@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uenwhwp.fsf@moondust.localdomain>
> I think it might be worth documenting this in the manual. Perhaps in
> Section 20.5 Deleting and Rearranging Windows, which might be better
> named "Deleting, Rearranging, and Resizing Windows".
It's called "Deleting and Resizing Windows" now.
> Also a search for "resize" in the manual doesn't currently find this
> section even though it is where the (keyboard-based) resizing commands are
> documented.
A few concept indices are there now.
> On the other hand, this functionality is not something a user would
> expect to have to look up in the manual. Resizing things on screen by
> dragging a handle provided when placing the mouse cursor over their
> boundary is a very commonplace, almost universal idiom; it would be nice
> if Emacs could do this by default.
I'm afraid that some users would deeply deplore the loss of sacred
screen estate then.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-02 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-23 19:15 bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows N. Jackson
2015-03-23 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-23 20:57 ` N. Jackson
2015-07-02 13:22 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2015-07-02 15:32 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-02 16:14 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-02 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-23 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-02 13:22 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-06 11:08 ` martin rudalics
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