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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking mini windows to one pixel height
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:58:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831sh1uxhw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A9A86D3.3070201@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:28:19 +0100)

> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:28:19 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  > 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.

Not sure I'm following: what do you mean by "the first text line", and
what is its significance to the issue at hand?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-03 12:58 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
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 [this message]
2018-03-03 13:42       ` martin rudalics

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