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Subject: off-by-one bug in split-window (horizontally)
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Date: 25 Jun 89 06:49:03 GMT
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In GNU Emacs version 18.54.2, split-window-horizontally splits the
window unevenly when the window being split has an odd number of
columns.  (The left window ends up with (n - 1) / 2 - 1 cols, while
the right window gets (n - 1) / 2 + 1 cols.)

This is pretty minor, but it makes it a hassle to start up a
163-column emacs and have two 81-column windows side by side.  (I
highly recommend this configuration, by the way.)

Nick Thompson - nrt@cs.brown.edu

"When I say a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it.
... But ... I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way
of thought are inabilities of the universe.  I therefore define truth
as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those
that are better equipped."    -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes