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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking mini windows to one pixel height
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A9A86D3.3070201@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d10lv4ko.fsf@gnu.org>

 > Does the capability or making a mini window 1-pixel tall cause us any
 > trouble?  If not, I'd prefer not to block it, let alone do that on the
 > release branch.

Fine with me.

 > If you feel strongly about disabling this by default, on behalf of the
 > innocent and the naïve, I could agree with a defcustom that would do
 > that.  Maybe.

So let's wait for an innocent or naïve to speak up.

 > In any case, limiting this to frame-char-height sounds too harsh to
 > me, because using a suitably selected font one could produce quite
 > legible text in the mini window of a significantly smaller size.
 > E.g., AFAIR sizes as small as half that don't even trigger
 > reallocation of the glyph matrices, because their original allocation
 > tolerates up to twice as many screen lines as determined by the
 > frame's default font.

Ideally we would remember the pixel height of the first text line and
never shrink it to anything less than that.

martin




  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-03 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-03  9:06 Shrinking mini windows to one pixel height martin rudalics
2018-03-03 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-03 11:28   ` martin rudalics [this message]
2018-03-03 12:03     ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-03 13:42       ` martin rudalics
2018-03-03 17:07       ` Drew Adams
2018-03-03 12:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-03 13:42       ` martin rudalics

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