From: Francis Litterio <franl@world.std.com>
Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to fix frame positioning with negative top/leftvalues on Windows
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:17:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1x67a1t2.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ur7e7ixbo.fsf@jasonrumney.net
Jason Rumney wrote:
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> > Windows, when you evaluate this Elisp code:
>> >
>> > (make-frame '((top . -1) (left . -1)))
>> >
>> > the new frame will not be positioned with its bottom-right
>> corner in the
>> > bottom-right of the display.
>
>> I don't understand your reply, sorry. Are you saying that Francis's bug fix
>> will break "..." or that the reported bug (symptom quoted above) will break
>> "..."? Are you saying we shouldn't try to fix this bug because that might
>> break something else?
>
> I didn't understand the bug fix. I thought it was changing the way the
> frame was positioned when negative arguments are given, however it
> seems that misfeature already exists, and this fix was only a subtle
> change to that misfeature. So this bug fix is not the problem, it is
> the misfeature of treating negative coordinates specially.
Are you proposing that the meaning of a negative 'top or 'left frame
parameter should be changed? If so, how?
My patch merely attempts to make negative 'top and 'left frame
parameters behave sanely in the case where a single monitor is used
(which is the vast majority of the use cases).
--
Francis Litterio
franl <at> world . std . com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-10 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 16:23 Patch to fix frame positioning with negative top/left values on Windows Francis Litterio
2005-07-09 0:30 ` Francis Litterio
2005-07-09 8:07 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-09 15:16 ` Re: Patch to fix frame positioning with negative top/leftvalues " Drew Adams
2005-07-09 19:38 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-10 1:17 ` Francis Litterio [this message]
2005-07-10 5:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-04-01 7:44 ` Patch to fix frame positioning with negative top/left values onWindows Drew Adams
2006-04-01 16:22 ` Fran Litterio
2006-04-02 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-03 1:23 ` Fran Litterio
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