From: Martin Rudalics Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:53:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: In windows.texi mention special splitting behavior of side and atomic windows X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.91~187 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5381c70;p=emacs.git In windows.texi mention special splitting behavior of side and atomic windows * doc/lispref/windows.texi (Splitting Windows): Add note about and links to side and atomic windows. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/windows.texi b/doc/lispref/windows.texi index e1eac457179..08ed092c48c 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/windows.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/windows.texi @@ -1109,7 +1109,10 @@ the size of @var{window} is not preserved. @cindex window splitting This section describes functions for creating a new window by -@dfn{splitting} an existing one. +@dfn{splitting} an existing one. Note that some windows are special in +the sense that these functions may fail to split them as described here. +Examples of such windows are side windows (@pxref{Side Windows}) and +atomic windows (@pxref{Atomic Windows}). @defun split-window &optional window size side pixelwise This function creates a new live window next to the window