Re: balance-windows again

[Lennart Borgman]

Bingham, Jay wrote:

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> On: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 6:43 PM Lennart Borgman wrote:
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> > Some time ago I wrote some suggestions about how to rewrite 
> > balance-windows to use the windows split tree. I have tried to do
> >    
> that. 
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> > The file bw.el at
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> >   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/elisp/test/
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> > contains my rewrite of balance-windows. Could those who are interested please 
> > test this version?
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> Lennart,
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> I tried your bw.el package on emacs 21.3 running on Win2K, and found the
> following:
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> After evaluating the buffer containing the package and splitting window
> into three uneven windows I executed bw-balance.  I received the
> following message:
> let: Wrong number of arguments: #<subr enlarge-window>, 3

> However, when I tried some more complex configurations of windows, emacs
> stopped responding and I would have to kill the process.
>
> Here are two windows configurations that caused emacs to hang:
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Thanks Jay! I am only using CVS Emacs and missed that enlarge-window 
only take two args in 21.3.

The window configurations you tested works well in CVS Emacs. I guess 
they do not converge because my code depends on the third arg to 
enlarge-window. I have made some small changes that I hope will make the 
code work on 21.3 too, but the result will of course is some cases not 
be as good as in CVS Emacs though. The new version is 0.52 and I have 
just uploaded it.

I have however found a case where bw-balance does not work, but I 
believe it is a bug in CVS Emacs. I have told this on the Emacs Devel 
list and I am waiting for some answer.

Best wishes,
Lennart