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: display-mm-width return value off on Windows Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44E73CD6.80207@gnu.org> <874pw86284.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <44E79204.9030505@gnu.org> <87y7tj4y5l.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156151473 15754 80.91.229.2 (21 Aug 2006 09:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:11:13 +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 11:11:12 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 1GF5oH-0004ja-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:11:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5oH-0005ad-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5ja-00042W-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5jZ-00041j-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5jY-00041B-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GF5qu-0001xx-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GF5jY-0000DH-0G; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:12 -0400 Original-To: Ralf Angeli In-reply-to: <87y7tj4y5l.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> (message from Ralf Angeli on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:19:34 +0200) 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:58602 Archived-At: > From: Ralf Angeli > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:19:34 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Given that both ways of calculating the screen size are unreliable I > am still interested in data allowing to judge which method returns > more accurate results in the majority of cases. 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, perhaps on help-emacs-windows, to try the new code and report results with both old and new versions.