From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement functions for measuring fonts and max chars per line Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:24:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87vbk5avw0.fsf@fencepost.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421533490 1141 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2015 22:24:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , malsburg@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 23:24:48 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 1YCbnT-000413-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCbnS-0000Cz-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44635) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCbnG-0000Cs-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCbnF-0007jq-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCbnF-0007jm-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55900 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCbnE-0003yk-MW; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D609BE0A31; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:24:15 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20150117172122.0ccfba34@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:21:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:181388 Archived-At: "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:41:55 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:38:39 -0500 >> > From: "Perry E. Metzger" >> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >=20 >> > This all brings to mind: is there a good way now to determine what >> > the maximum number of lines in a frame would be in a given font on >> > the user's display? >>=20 >> You mean window, not frame, right? > > No, frame. I'd like to be able to set my default frame height to "full > height" for the display (filling the display from top to bottom) -- > right now I do guesswork to do this, and my .emacs breaks when I > switch to a new display. Uh, maximize vertically? I do that with my window manager, but Emacs also offers it as a command line option =E2=80=98-fh=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98--fullheight=E2=80=99 Specify that the height should be the height of the screen. and probably with some other ways. --=20 David Kastrup