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28.1.91; two column windows merge leaves 2nd column window showing

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From: Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57161 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57161: 28.1.91; two column windows merge leaves 2nd column
 window showing
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:10:40 +0000 (UTC)

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>
>> Expected result has one window with one line of text in two columns.
>
> Which part of the 2C mode documentation led you to expect to see just
> one window after "F2 1"?
>

The documentation says the following.

```

     When you have edited both buffers as you wish, merge them with ‘<F2>
  1’ or ‘C-x 6 1’ (‘2C-merge’).  This copies the text from the right-hand
  buffer as a second column in the other buffer.  To go back to two-column
  editing, use ‘<F2> s’.

```

Documentation  and  actual behavior  drift  apart  is a  common  place
expectation in  software.  My familiarity  with C-x 1 carried  over to
C-x 6 1.

-- 
vl
				 ALPINE 2.24 GNU Emacs 27.2 NetBSD 9.3

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