From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, jbasrai@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Emacs inventing system documentation
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:30:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3099-Fri20Feb2004193047+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873c968uzv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 19 Feb 2004 23:57:22 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2004 23:57:22 +0200
>
> This code runs before the man page is formatted and displayed, and
> we don't know where the page will actually be displayed, so both
> frame-width and window-width are incorrect. But still window-width
> is better than frame-width, because it produces more correct results
> in one situation and don't make it worse in another.
``More correct'' might not be good enough: it could be better for the
situations you tried, but we cannot guarantee it is always better.
That's why it is IMHO wrong to use incorrect methods.
So I think we should come up with a different approach, one that
guarantees that the screen width passed to `man' is the correct one.
Could you please try to think about such a different solution?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-20 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1145.1074773531.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-22 18:31 ` Emacs inventing system documentation Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-22 23:37 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-23 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-18 21:02 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-19 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-19 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-20 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1230.1074882368.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-24 3:35 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.1160.1074796607.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-23 22:29 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-01-22 12:00 Reuben Thomas
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