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: [PATCH] Implement functions for measuring fonts and max chars per line Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:41:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83zj9fxwr8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k31j3g03.fsf@posteo.de> <87d27b2ugp.fsf@posteo.de> <87zjaeo7eg.fsf@posteo.de> <874mrp46ns.fsf@posteo.de> <20150117153839.0de5fa7b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83k30lywa4.fsf@gnu.org> <20150117172122.0ccfba34@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83iog4zrd2.fsf@gnu.org> <20150117230858.361b5307@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83h9voyu9m.fsf@gnu.org> <20150118172633.61609906@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20150118215643.6939487c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421638923 12179 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2015 03:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: malsburg@posteo.de, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 04:42:02 2015 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 1YD3E2-0005DV-7p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YD3E1-0007QM-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YD3Dt-0007O3-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YD3Dn-0007PU-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:57536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YD3Dm-0007PA-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:41:47 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NIE00300MB0EM00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:34:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NIE00OW4N9IDL60@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:34:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20150118215643.6939487c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:181425 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:56:43 -0500 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , malsburg@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > What would be nice would be the addition of a function that told one > the true maximum number of lines possible for a frame on the given > display, *or* if there was a non-integer value you could specify for > the "height" component of the frame-alist that simply meant "as much > as possible". (Both might actually be nice things to have.) That's what the 'fullscreen frame parameter is for.