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Re: Sharing my split-window-preferred-function that splits at (pixel-wise) longer window-edge

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2025-12-17 19:16 aidan.hall202@gmail.com:

> I like the general idea of splitting based on pixel widths, since it
> makes the logic independent of a given window's text scale. One issue
> with this function is that it doesn't account for characters generally
> being taller than they are wide.
>
> You could do something similar using "scale independent window
> width/height in characters", computed like so:
>
> (/ (window-pixel-width) (frame-char-width))
>
> Both your approach and this degrade (somewhat) gracefully to character
> counts in terminal frames, where:
> (window-pixel-width) = (window-width)
> (frame-char-width) = 1

Oh, right. That's a nice idea too! Thanks for sharing :)

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Sharing my split-window-preferred-function that splits at (pixel-wise) longer window-edge Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-31 17:43 +0100
  Re: Sharing my split-window-preferred-function that splits at (pixel-wise) longer window-edge Aidan Hall <aidan.hall202@gmail.com> - 2025-12-17 19:16 +0000
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