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bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:57:02 +0300 |
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:09:14 +0200
> Cc: 50178-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>
> > Try emacs -Q, C-h h to see why it is impossible to have "an API that
> > returns how many lines fit on a given window".
>
> Any graphics environment worth its salt has methods for measuring
> whatever object without actually rendering it.
So does Emacs: that's what window-text-pixel-size does.
> If an integer, it specifies the maximum height in units of the
> mini-window frame’s default font’s height.
> "
>
> Why that was implemented that way? (instead of using pixels, for
> instance.)
Because in most cases it's more useful: it approximates the actual
number of lines quite well.
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, (continued)
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/08/24
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/24
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/08/24
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/24
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, martin rudalics, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Gregory Heytings, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Gregory Heytings, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/08/25
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/26
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, martin rudalics, 2021/08/26
- bug#50178: 28.0.50; Size of echo area does not account for line-spacing, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/26