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Re: Window tree and window's internal height
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Window tree and window's internal height |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:36:24 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:41:03 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
> > I thought of saying something like
> >
> > The minibuffer window does not have a parent window, but it
> > nevertheless is a sibling of the frame's root window, and thus can
> > be reached via window-next-sibling.
>
> I'd start the sentence with "A minibuffer window that is not alone on
> its frame ..." but for the rest it's fine with me.
Thanks, I used that.
> > I don't. I've read the description of the window tree, and thought
> > "this is a single window on its TTY frame, it cannot possibly have
> > anything non-nil pointed to by its 'next' pointer". Oops!
>
> So sometimes such details are important in the manual. Still, I
> wouldn't rely on the Elisp manual to tell me anything about the
> underlying C structures.
Well, I turned to the manual after becoming disappointed in the
comments to 'struct window' definition...
> > No. The code is very unequivocal:
> >
> > /* If we must, use the pixel-based version which is much slower than
> > the line-based one but can handle varying line heights. */
> > if (FRAME_WINDOW_P (XFRAME (XWINDOW (window)->frame))) <<<<<<<<<<
> > window_scroll_pixel_based (window, n, whole, noerror);
> > else
> > window_scroll_line_based (window, n, whole, noerror);
>
> The code is unequivocal, the comment leaves much room to
> interpretation.
I made it more clear now.
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