From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: size hints and tiling window managers Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:42:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83sj76r4jk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zk1r104d.fsf@bernoul.li> <50C1C678.5040805@gmx.at> <838v98nci1.fsf@gnu.org> <87boe3t4gd.fsf@bernoul.li> <83a9tnc91r.fsf@gnu.org> <87fw3651rj.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355632979 27485 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2012 04:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 05:43:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tk64F-0005uI-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:43:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tk642-0006ZN-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tk63y-0006Z6-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tk63v-0004dn-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:42:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tk63u-0004dh-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:42:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MF300M00WUPDX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:42:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MF300LWWX2WUFC0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:42:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87fw3651rj.fsf@bernoul.li> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155590 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Cc: cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:33:36 +0100 > > I have tried to adjust the _height_ of the mode-line face. This caused > the last line of the text area to be displayed only partially and the > height of the extra space below the echo area did not change as we had > hoped. > > I also tried using the display property: > > ,---- > | (setq mode-line-format > | (list "" 'mode-line-buffer-identification > | (propertize " " 'display '((space :height (30)))))) > `---- Thanks. I guess some of my assumptions about how the echo-area size is determined were wrong. I will take a look when I have time. > is there actually a way to have a multi-line mode-line? No.