[mew-int 2758] Re: answering and email results in strange buffer arrangement

From: Michael Ernst <[email protected]>
Subject: [mew-int 2741] Re: answering and email results in strange buffer arrangement
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT)

>> i just realised that when i hit "a" for answering an email in mew i
>> get a strange layout of emacs buffers.  what happens is that rather
>> than having three horizontal buffers like usual (list of email on
>> the top, original email in the middle, draft where i compose the
>> answer in the bottom), the bottom side of the screen is vertically
>> divided between another list view and the draft email.
> 
> This is not related to Mew.  It is standard Emacs 23 behavior.
> 
> The Emacs 23 NEWS file states:
> 
>   ** Changes affecting display-buffer
> 
>   *** display-buffer tries to be smarter when splitting windows.
>   The new option split-window-preferred-function lets you specify your own
>   function to pop up new windows.  Its default value split-window-sensibly
>   can split a window either vertically or horizontally, whichever seems
>   more suitable in the current configuration.  You can tune the behavior
>   of split-window-sensibly by customizing split-height-threshold and the
>   new option split-width-threshold.  Both options now take the value nil
>   to inhibit splitting in one direction.  Setting split-width-threshold to
>   nil inhibits horizontal splitting and gets you the behavior of Emacs 22
>   in this respect.  In any case, display-buffer may now split the largest
>   window vertically even when it is not as wide as the containing frame.
> 
> You can read the NEWS file by typing  C-h C-n.  This will tell you about
> other enhancements (or regressions, depending on your point of view).
> 
>                     -Michael Ernst
> 
> PS: This is a rather late reply, but I didn't see another in the meanwhile.

This is a rather late reply as well, but I would like to say that your solution solved my problem
perfectly. :)

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