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Re: Change window splitting behavior?



At Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:16:08 +0800,
David Abrahams wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've had a love/hate relationship with Gnus for many years. I'm just
> getting into WL, and I have to say I am very impressed. Once you get
> over the hurdle of installing WL, it seems so much more like a
> mail/news client... while Gnus seems more and more like a
> construction kit for news/mail clients that never quite got pulled
> together into a coherent application.
>
> One thing that still bothers me about WL, though:
> Computer screens are getting wider and wider, and yet UIs
> (especially those of mail clients, for some reason) seem to split
> windows into two vertically-stacked sub-windows. This leaves me
> reading only a few extremely long lines and scrolling a lot, unable
> to see the big picture. And if the message happens to have line
> breaks already, it wastes a large percentage of my screen
> real-estate. I feel like I'm looking through my front door's mail
> delivery slot.
>
> Gnus has an elaborate system that I can use to specify window
> layout, so I set up something like this:
>
>   +-----------+----------+
>   | folders   | message/ |
>   |           | article  |
>   +-----------+          |
>   |           |          |
>   | summary   |          |
>   |           |          |
>   |           |          |
>   +-----------+----------+
>
> Is there any way to get something similar from wanderlust?

Hi David -

There are no customization features for this, so you would have to
write something yourself, which would probably involve rewriting a not
insignificant amount of code.

best,
Erik Hetzner

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