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Inconsistent handling of window splitting with margins

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm, 22009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22009: PATCH: Use `window-total-width' in `window-splittable-p'
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:49:04 +0100

> Yes, thanks.  But that still doesn't suggest how to fix
> window-splittable-p, unless we care _only_ for Joost's use case.  And
> I don't think we can declare that only such use cases matter, as
> window-splittable-p is too general-purpose for that.

Indeed.  Joost's fix also takes care of fringes, scroll bars and
dividers.

> We agree that the code should be fixed.  We just disagree about (or
> don't know) _how_ to fix it.

If we do not fix the code on the release branch I have to fix a couple
of doc-strings there telling that for historical reasons we do compare
apples and oranges.  Affected are ‘window-splittable-p’,
‘split-window-sensibly’ and ‘split-width-threshold’.  For the latter two
I'd have to amend the Elisp manual as well.

martin

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