Re: [comp.emacs] ediff wide/gnome (emacs 21)

[Mike Ballard]

On Fri Nov 25, I was peacefully napping until Mike Ballard said:

> On Fri Nov 25, I was peacefully napping until Kevin Rodgers said:
> 
> > Mike Ballard wrote:
> > > I'm not particularly enamored with gnome but have been using it for
> > > awhile, have things set up so would rather just leave it.
> > > But one of the irritating problems I never had until using gnome is ediff
> > > wide-screen positioning; on-screen emacs is positioned near the right edge
> > > where I want it; when I start ediff (using 'ediff-diff-options "-w"')
> > > 9x/10 gnome/its wm leave the left edge of emacs as-is and expands for
> > > ediff off-screen (out of view) to the right.  Besides dropping gnome or
> > > replacing wms, is there any way I can fix this?
> > > I have no idea how/why gnome does this because as I mentioned, it doesn't
> > > do this each and every single time; sometimes it will correctly
> > > expand/reposition to the center but 90% of the time it expands off-screen
> > > to the right (and this inconsistency could be session-to-session or a
> > > couple times it's done this within a single session).
> > 
> > Does adding (user-position . t) to the frame parameters help?
> > 
> > (defun ediff-make-wide-display ()
> >    "Construct an alist of parameters for the wide display.
> > Saves the old frame parameters in `ediff-wide-display-orig-parameters'.
> > The frame to be resized is kept in `ediff-wide-display-frame'.
> > This function modifies only the left margin and the width of the display.
> > It assumes that it is called from within the control buffer."
> >    (if (not (fboundp 'ediff-display-pixel-width))
> >        (error "Can't determine display width"))
> >    (let* ((frame-A (window-frame ediff-window-A))
> >      (frame-A-params (frame-parameters frame-A))
> >      (cw (ediff-frame-char-width frame-A))
> >      (wd (- (/ (ediff-display-pixel-width) cw) 5)))
> >      (setq ediff-wide-display-orig-parameters
> >       (list (cons 'left (max 0 (eval (cdr (assoc 'left frame-A-params)))))
> >             (cons 'width (cdr (assoc 'width frame-A-params))))
> >       ediff-wide-display-frame frame-A)
> >      (modify-frame-parameters frame-A
> >                          `((left . ,cw) (width . ,wd)
> >                            (user-position . t)))))
> > 
> 
> Yep; did the trick.  Thanks...
> 

Well that's damn irritating (freakin' gnome/metacity).  I merged that into
ediff-wind.el, byte-compiled, put the el in lisp/ and recompiled emacs
(r21.x; tar file is 2 years old).  Installed it, tried it out and worked
every time so posted "thanks".  Today it's back to its old behavior...

Mike
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