Re: position of line moves depending on visible chars

[Yasushi SHOJI]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Yasushi SHOJI <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 01:40:45 +0900
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
> The behavior was changed in order to avoid huge line spacing when a
> font reports a preposterously large height.  Any option such as the
> one you are talking about will have to keep the new behavior whereby
> the display engine doesn't user the font height for drawing the cursor
> on empty lines, because this will have an even worse effects.

Are you saying that the change is to workaround bad fonts?

I apologize for my ignorance.

>> I'm not oppose to the change but I'm sure this affects many multilingual
>> writers. A vibrating line while typing isn't a good experience.
>
> It's impossible to keep lines at the same spacing when multiple fonts
> are involved anyway, so the situation you are describing is not new.

Would you enlighten me about this? (A link to bts would be fine.)

I'm not sure why it's impossible, even though Emacs 24 works just
fine.  Are you saying that the working Emacs 24 is a pure luck? (having
good fonts?)

Thanks,
-- 
            yashi