From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:22:04 +0200 Message-ID: <55953AFC.5080307@gmx.at> References: <87d23zwmo0.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83fv8vqzfi.fsf@gnu.org> <878uenwhwp.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435843405 24577 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2015 13:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20183@debbugs.gnu.org To: "N. 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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