[gnu.emacs.bug] Dropped resize event.

bbc@rice.edu (Ben Chase) (02/16/89)

I just resized a gnu emacs window as it was starting up, and the window
failed to notice that the window had changed size.  I had started it
as "gnu -e gnus", and gnus is present as an autoload in my ".emacs" file.
It seems, from informal experiments, that resize events aren't noticed at
any time during loading or execution of the gnus package.

It may or may not be possible to track down this bug based on this
information.  However, one good way to soften the effect of this bug is to
have "recenter" ask for the current size of the window, whenever it is
called interactively.  We did this long ago with a certain unmentionable
editor (still in use locally) because it also dropped resize events, and
this change proved to be an excellent heuristic.

Ben Chase, Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Ben Chase, Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas