From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Ritchford Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Suddenly, grep, list-buffers etc. split the screen horizontally... but .emacs is unchanged! Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <659350bb-6e8b-4649-92b5-9d0c0c1de331@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273055935 26463 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 10:38:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:38:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 12:38:52 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9c09-00058T-E8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 12:38:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9c08-0000Dp-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 06:38:48 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.131.209.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1269104862 26794 127.0.0.1 (20 Mar 2010 17:07:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.131.209.220; posting-account=5v6rpgoAAABFy2eR1WK9RDUabl9vr892 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.307.11 Safari/532.9, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177512 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:48:03 -0400 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:73360 Archived-At: Suddenly, in the middle of a long emacs session (it had been up for over a week) my terminal-based emacs -nw now splits horizontally for every new window (grep, compilation, list-buffers, etc). I've used emacs for over 25 years and never gotten into this state. I restarted emacs - no luck. My .emacs hadn't changed in a while. Just to be sure, I reverted to a backup .emacs from February, when I'm sure this problem didn't occur - nope! I don't tend to make huge changes to my system. The one thing that happened that I have to believe is related is that I loaded and ran the OS/X emacs (with "real" windows and menus), which I decided not to use because of the anti-aliased text. Strangely enough, that instance of emacs splits vertically (like every other instance of emacs I've ever used) - but I find it hard to read. I'm very frustrated! I use emacs for about 50 hours a week and now my main emacs "isn't working" (EVERY time the screen splits vertically I get diverted from my work - and that happens many dozens of times an hour). I really don't want to be forced to use the damned windowed emacs, I *like* the text terminal based emacs and have used it for over a decade. I've been a good boy, I have complete backups of everything, I don't change my system and yet it's now broken. So any help is MOST appreciated! System Details: Mac OS/X, 10.6.2, details on request. Terminal emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, X toolkit) of 2009-08-15 on hofmann OS/X "native" emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54) of 2009-08-16 on black.local