Re: mode-line bug in Emacs 21

[Charles Sebold]

On 27 Adar 5761, Chong Yidong wrote:

> I recently installed Emacs 21.0.100-0.1, and have encountered a minor
> bug. I realize this is not an official release; if posting an Emacs 21
> bug in this newsgroup is inappropriate, I apologize.
> 
> I have the following line in my .emacs file:
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(scroll-bar-width . 8))
> 
> This reduces the width of the scroll-bar. When the window is split
> vertically, and the new window subsequently deleted, a portion of the
> deleted mode-line remains in the space left by the shrunken
> scroll-bar.
> 
> The problem does not occur if the scroll-bar is left at its default
> size. However, the scroll-bar customization did not cause any problems
> in Emacs 20.

I believe 21-pretest bug reports should go to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
rather than here.

(I _will_ wait patiently, I _will_ not go find some unofficial copy of
the pretest again... I keep telling myself that.)
-- 
Charles Sebold
Random Answer to an Emacs Very Frequently Asked Question:
 Your .emacs is either in C:\ or in the directory of %HOME% under Win32.
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