Mercurial > emacs
changeset 40312:473610705e03
Explain how splitting windows relates to window-min-height
and window-min-width.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:31:10 +0000 |
| parents | a3a9223b152f |
| children | b2ff79e90309 |
| files | lispref/windows.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/windows.texi Thu Oct 25 15:30:32 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispref/windows.texi Thu Oct 25 15:31:10 2001 +0000 @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ part of its former screen area. The rest is occupied by a newly created window which is returned as the value of this function. - If @var{horizontal} is non-@code{nil}, then @var{window} splits into +If @var{horizontal} is non-@code{nil}, then @var{window} splits into two side by side windows. The original window @var{window} keeps the leftmost @var{size} columns, and gives the rest of the columns to the new window. Otherwise, it splits into windows one above the other, and @@ -159,13 +159,17 @@ left-hand or upper of the two, and the new window is the right-hand or lower. - If @var{window} is omitted or @code{nil}, then the selected window is +If @var{window} is omitted or @code{nil}, then the selected window is split. If @var{size} is omitted or @code{nil}, then @var{window} is divided evenly into two parts. (If there is an odd line, it is allocated to the new window.) When @code{split-window} is called interactively, all its arguments are @code{nil}. - The following example starts with one window on a screen that is 50 +If splitting would result in making a window that is smaller than +@code{window-min-height} or @code{window-min-width}, the function +signals an error and does not split the window at all. + +The following example starts with one window on a screen that is 50 lines high by 80 columns wide; then the window is split. @smallexample