From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:22:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87odudzyev.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> References: <44E73CD6.80207@gnu.org> <874pw86284.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <44E79204.9030505@gnu.org> <87y7tj4y5l.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156188205 18739 80.91.229.2 (21 Aug 2006 19:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 21:23:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFFMm-0001zv-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFFMl-0001Hd-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFFMX-0001G9-Vx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFFMT-0001FI-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFFMT-0001FF-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GFFTq-0003i8-Hn; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.165.72.105] (helo=neutrino.caeruleus.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1GFFMI462D-0004pv; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:22:51 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:12 -0400") X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:abf9ffac21f8345504ac40c53d3b40ba X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58662 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii (2006-08-21) writes: > Me too. In fact, I'd oppose to modify the current code, unless we > have a sufficient number of reports which clearly indicate that the > proposed solution is significantly better than the existing code. > Given the evident lack of any theoretical argument in favor, I think > good statistics is the only way to make a sound decision. > > So please ask more people, What does `display-mm-width' and `display-mm-height' return in _your_ case with the patch applied? (c; Maybe other people involved in this thread and using Windows could report return values with the thread applied as well. > perhaps on help-emacs-windows, to try the > new code and report results with both old and new versions. There probably won't be many people around compiling Emacs themselves. I could do the next upload of a precompiled Emacs to alpha.gnu.org with the patch applied and ask people to compare output of that version with the prior one. -- Ralf