From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: face-remap.el patch to resize window
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo1vnk5ola.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv63cw4bs5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:00:09 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Doesn't it make sense to resize the window to take advantage of space
>> freed up when text is scaled smaller? As an option at least?
>
> To me the fact that text-scale-increase doesn't change the window's
> size is one of its greatest features. Resizing windows is the job of
> the window-manager (and most of my window's sizes are dicated by the
> screen size).
> But if people like it, I won't object to this feature as an option, as
> long as it's well integrated.
It sounds like a very confusing feature -- remember that
text-scale-increase applies to a single buffer, but windows are
typically used for many buffers in turn.
It could be useful for very specific cases, but it seems somehow wrong
to have it as a global setting.
-Miles
--
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the
limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 1:04 face-remap.el patch to resize window Drew Adams
2009-08-10 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 3:27 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 5:04 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 3:34 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-10 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 16:52 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 17:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 21:50 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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2009-06-29 22:10 Drew Adams
2009-06-22 20:40 Drew Adams
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