GNU bug report logs - #4543
window-full-height-p

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:50:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 4543 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 4543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4543: window-full-height-p
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0200

> I always have to think about which is which. See, to split a window
> "vertically", you draw a horizontal separator across the middle...

These terms _are_ confusing.  But I'd also like to get rid of the term
`split-window'.  What a user wants is a new window below or right of
some specified one or maybe at the top or the bottom of the frame.  I'd
prefer `create-window' with a window, size, and placement argument.

martin
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