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Mouse click changes layout

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: occitan <at> esperanto.org
Cc: 12419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12419: Mouse click changes layout
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:09:16 +0200

> I never took note of this as badly as recently with GNU Emacs 24.1.1, so
> I'm not sure if this has gotten worse than before: if I have a multiline
> message display, or a sideways scrolling buffer, and I click somewhere,
> the layout goes back to normal as per that click.  In both situations
> that's a major change of the layout and the click is not registered
> where I really clicked, but at the same position after reorganizing the
> layout (e.g. I have 20 + 30 lines of windows + 5 lines of message area,
> but the message area dissapears when I click, shrinking to 1 line, so my
> click happens a few lines above where it was when I clicked, bacause the
> 20 line window grew to 22 and the 30 line window grew to 33, so the
> position I clicked is 4 lines above what I saw when clicking).
>
> It never struck me until some months ago, so maybe there's a
> regression.  Anyway it's extremely annoying!

Can you improve the behavior by changing the value of
`resize-mini-windows'?

martin

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