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bug#33254: 26.1.50; Fixed-size windows break 'balance-windows'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#33254: 26.1.50; Fixed-size windows break 'balance-windows' |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:15:22 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:46:31 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: 33254@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> No. It works with Emacs 23.
> >
> > Still, that's a very long time. Why is it urgent to fix this in 26.2?
>
> It's not the visible behavior that's disquieting me. It's rather the
> fact that 'balance-windows-1' goes on calculating all sorts of things
> and finally 'balance-windows' sumbits a wrongly calculated structure
> to 'window-resize-apply' which only gets caught by window_resize_check
> at a very, very late stage. Ideally, window_resize_check would emit a
> warning in such a case, but I never got around to write it.
>
> I think the bug happens to users of 'balance-windows' all the time but
> they hardly notice because for that it needs at least three windows,
> one of them of fixed size. With my example it's barely noticeable at
> all. Also it's a plain thinko and probably not that urgent so I can
> make the change on Emacs 27 only as well.
OK, let's have it one emacs-26.