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bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error
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Alan Third |
Subject: |
bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error |
Date: |
Sat, 1 Oct 2016 17:20:15 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:44:50PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 14:01:44 +0100
> > From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> > Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 18390@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I can’t see how you know it’s an 80 column window, could you explain
> > it to me?
>
> The default width of an Emacs window displayed by "emacs -Q" is 80
> columns. And that is the width of a window I see when I repeat Drew's
> recipe and get the same error signaled as in his report.
Sorry, I didn’t realise you were repeating it. I thought you could see
that in the backtrace output in the original bug report and wondered
why I couldn’t.
> > Looking at the code in palette.el, it requests a 115 character wide
> > frame, is it possible that Emacs will return a smaller than requested
> > frame?
>
> I don't really know what palette.el is doing, but it could be that it
> doesn't let the Emacs frame time to resize itself before splitting the
> window.
>
> Actually, adding a (sit-for 0) might be all that's needed, if this is
> the problem (which I'm not at all sure).
This makes some sense to me, palette.el isn’t doing that much between
creating the frame and splitting the windows.
> In any case, I once again ask the question: why should we assume it's
> a bug in Emacs, and not first try looking into what palette.el does?
That’s what I was trying to do.
--
Alan Third
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/01
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Alan Third, 2016/10/01
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/01
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error,
Alan Third <=
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/02
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/02
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/03
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/03
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/03
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/04
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/04
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/04
- bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/04
bug#18390: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `split-window' error, Drew Adams, 2016/10/02