redefining chapters

[The Lonely One]

I have a followup question to the "chapterless" question, I just didn't want to derail that thread:

Once you get an editor in your mitt, are they known to question break points for chapters (in other words, redefine them) or even suggest to cut or add chapter breaks or entirely new chapters?

I know there are content changes that go along with making something publishable in the eyes of an editor, but is the general formatting challenged in this way?

Is it better to keep a loose definition of chapters when writing a novel manuscript?

Curious, but not defiant. Fairly tame, actually--
Lonely

[Charlie Horse]

This is a good question, one of which I'd like to know myself.

[qwerty]

I can only speak from personal experience. Although I've carried out revision for agents, I was never asked to alter chapter breaks.

[ChaosTitan]

I've never altered chapter breaks, either.

I can see it becoming necessary if the chapter breaks really are badly placed, or if altering one adds tension to the scene. I suppose, like many things, it just depends.

[Tanya Egan Gibson]

I've never altered chapter breaks -- but I killed off entire chapters/scenes at my agent's request.

[Susan Breen]

I didn't have to change chapter breaks either. I'm trying to remember reading a book and thinking, no, the chapter should have ended there. At the moment I'm reading The Gathering and she has a lot of chapter breaks and I like it because it makes the reading flow. But that's probably beside the point.