Hi,
this came through the Debian BTS:
open two emacs buffers, do "M-x ediff-buffers". Now try to hit "?"
while the little ediff window has focus. It is supposed to resize itself to a larger size with help information and back to the minimal size, but instead it jumps around like a rodeo bull.
with emacs21 and emacs-snapshot, i am trying this but the window is not resizing. when i hit "?", one of the buffers just changes to have the help text in it
(In reply to comment #4)
> with emacs21 and emacs-snapshot, i am trying this but the window is not
> resizing. when i hit "?", one of the buffers just changes to have the help
> text in it
Thanks dana, I forward this to the reporter and ask for more input.
(In reply to comment #6)
> also, are you sure of the version? there were some serious fixes for this emacs
> resizing problem during the 3.4 series
Yep its openbox 3.4.4, at least the version information in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452532 does say so
i found how to get the ediff window from another bug report,
M-x ebuffers
however, when I hit '?' with emacs-snapshot-gtk and with emacs21, i don't get anything weird, it just resizes and works.
Thanks for testing! Did you also give emacs22 a try? The submitter may used it because if you install emacs it will install emacs22. I hope the submitter will soon provide more information directly to this bug tracker.
reply by the submitter:
Nico> Hi Ian, can you please provide more feedback on this. I forwarded
Nico> this to the upstream author but unfortunately he was not able to
Nico> reproduce this. Quoting: "with emacs21 and emacs-snapshot, i am
Nico> trying this but the window is not resizing. when i hit "?", one
Nico> of the buffers just changes to have the help text in it"
That sounds like he's using the default configuration, which is what
I did as a workaround. I.e. his ediff control buffer is in a subwindow
of the normal Emacs window.
The bug appears when you customize ediff-window-setup-function to use
multiple windows ("frames" in Emacs terminology).
when she used the "ebuffers" command though, the ediff window did show up as a separate window, with just a short "press ? for help" type message. pressing this did make her window resize correctly without any weird behavior..
perhaps you could provide information for me such as:
emacs version (including distribution)
openbox version
.emacs and .emacs.d files
anything else you can think of
cuz if i cant reproduce it, i will never be able to try fix it.
cheers.
reply by the submitter: Nico> Hi Ian, can you please provide more feedback on this. I forwarded Nico> this to the upstream author but unfortunately he was not able to Nico> reproduce this. Quoting: "with emacs21 and emacs-snapshot, i am Nico> trying this but the window is not resizing. when i hit "?", one Nico> of the buffers just changes to have the help text in it" That sounds like he's using the default configuration, which is what I did as a workaround. I.e. his ediff control buffer is in a subwindow of the normal Emacs window. The bug appears when you customize ediff-window-setup-function to use multiple windows ("frames" in Emacs terminology).