GNU bug report logs - #17065
24.3.50; Revise line 5944 of window.el to use `window-width`, instead of `window-total-width`.

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Message #11 received at 17065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 17065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17065: 24.3.50; Revise line 5944 of window.el to use
 `window-width`, instead of `window-total-width`.
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:09:28 -0700

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> (defun broken-example ()
>>    (interactive)
>>    (window--display-buffer
>>     ;; buffer
>>     (get-buffer-create "*test*")
>>     ;; window
>>     (split-window (selected-window) nil 'right)
>>     ;; type
>>     'window
>>     ;; alist
>>     '((window-width . 82))
>>     ;; dedicated
>>     t)
>>    (message "Window Width:  %s" (window-width (get-buffer-window "*test*"))) )
>
> Conceptually, the `window-width' alist entry specifies the new total
> width of the window, including fringes, scrollbars and vertical
> dividers.  You mean that specifiying the number of text columns is more
> intuitive?  I might agree, but unfortunately _all_ window resizing
> functions intepret "width" in terms of the total width of a window.
> Making an exception for this special case would only increase the
> confusion.
>
> The confusion has historical reasons and was not considered important,
> likely so, because side-by-side windows are in use more frequently only
> over the past years.  If, with emacs -Q, I do
>
> (let ((window (split-window (selected-window) -20 'right)))
>   (window-body-width window))
>
> I get 16 text columns for the new window which is likely not what I
> expected as someone using this function for the first time with an
> explicit SIZE argument.
>
> In any case, I will have to adjust some doc-strings and the Elisp
> manual.  So far the only hint is the doc-string of `split-window-right'
> which says
>
>   Here, SIZE includes the width of the window's scroll bar; if there are
>   no scroll bars, it includes the width of the divider column to the
>   window's right, if any.
>
> but I'm struggling with this issue ever since.

(That was 7.5 years ago.)

Is any of the above still an issue these days?

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