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bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows


From: martin rudalics
Subject: bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:22:04 +0200

> I think it might be worth documenting this in the manual. Perhaps in
> Section 20.5 Deleting and Rearranging Windows, which might be better
> named "Deleting, Rearranging, and Resizing Windows".

It's called "Deleting and Resizing Windows" now.

> Also a search for "resize" in the manual doesn't currently find this
> section even though it is where the (keyboard-based) resizing commands are
> documented.

A few concept indices are there now.

> On the other hand, this functionality is not something a user would
> expect to have to look up in the manual. Resizing things on screen by
> dragging a handle provided when placing the mouse cursor over their
> boundary is a very commonplace, almost universal idiom; it would be nice
> if Emacs could do this by default.

I'm afraid that some users would deeply deplore the loss of sacred
screen estate then.

martin





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