Re: 23.0.60; bug with window-splitting?

[Tom Rauchenwald]

Tom Rauchenwald <address@hidden> writes:

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>
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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> $ emacs -nw -Q
> M-x calendar
>
> results in calendar-basic-setup: Wrong type argument: window-live-p,
> #<frame F1 0x83bddb0> 
>
> In general, when started in a terminal, every function that wants to
> split the current window (describe-function, describe-variable and so
> on) results in that error.
>
> It seems to be connected to split-window-preferred-function (which is nil). 
> When I set it to split-window-preferred-horizontally things sort-of work,
> that means the window gets split vertically and not horizontally.
>
> In an X-frame everything works as expected.

I think i got vertical/horizontal backwards. Nevertheless, the default
behaviour (vertical splitting) doesn't work when started with -nw.

Tom