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From: | Jan Djärv |
Subject: | bug#3643: emacs -Q doesn't fit on the user's screen |
Date: | Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:14:02 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) |
martin rudalics skrev:
> It is not that simple, tool bar and/or menu bar may not be an integral > number of lines. Also, if a 10 pt font fits 20 lines perfectly on 340 > pixels, an 11 point font doesn't fit an integral number of lines in 340 > pixels, it takes 342 or 324. > Now most applications don't care, as they aren't text editors, so they > don't try to display an integral of text lines. However, gnome-terminal > and xterm do, and they resize when you change font. Why do we care so much about displaying integral numbers of text lines? With side-by-side Emacs windows displaying texts with different heights this issue is moot anyway.
It is a user interface issue to get Emacs to try to avoid showing partial lines, I guess.
> What to do with the excess? Some strip at the top that picks up the > slack? Now it got complicated. On Windows a maximized Emacs frame initially does not occupy the entire screen here. After resizing the minibuffer once it does by making the minibuffer apprently stretch below the bottom of my screen. So at least for running Emacs maximized these issues have been or eventually have to be resolved. It should be only a small step to generalize the strategy used for maximized frames to arbitrary frame sizes.
It is true that a maximized Emacs may in fact not show an integral number of lines. The slack in that case is taken up by the minibuffer or the last line which may show a partial line.
Jan D.
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