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From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com,
	joaotavora@gmail.com
Subject: Re: feature/icomplete-vertical
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:09:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2009201902140453.17869@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfh4zfml.fsf@gnu.org>


>> trying to calculate the height of the completion candidate list, which 
>> amount (as Stefan wrote) to redoing what redisplay does.
>
> I don't agree with Stefan, if this interpretation of what he said is 
> correct.  We have window-text-pixel-size to measure the size of text on 
> display without redoing what redisplay does.
>

Do you mean that every function which wants to display something in the 
minibuffer should use window-text-pixel-size to create a text that fits in 
the minibuffer without hiding the prompt?

And that this is better than only expecting such functions to approximate 
the available space, and to rely on the fact that if the text is too large 
the display engine will hide the end of the text instead of the prompt?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-12 13:10 feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-12 13:33 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-12 14:30   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-14  6:44   ` feature/icomplete-vertical jixiuf
2020-09-14  7:08     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-14 15:02     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-14 17:13       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-14 17:31         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-16 15:22       ` feature/icomplete-vertical jixiuf
     [not found]         ` <20200918005354.muskx2b7tssyqzzk@Ergus>
2020-09-18  3:08           ` feature/icomplete-vertical jixiuf
2020-09-18 11:58             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-18 17:05             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-18 19:52               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 10:55   ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-09-20 13:04     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-20 13:15       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 13:37         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-20 14:07         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 14:28           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 15:04             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-20 15:54               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 16:13                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-20 17:09             ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-09-20 17:43               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 16:48                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-10-02  4:45                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical jixiuf
2020-10-03  2:13                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-10-04 23:47                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05  4:48                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-10-05  9:06                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 12:23                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-10-05 12:28                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 12:52                             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-10-05  5:45                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05  9:13                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05  9:46                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05  9:57                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 10:11                             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 10:52                               ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 11:00                                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 11:11                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 11:33                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 11:48                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 17:59                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical martin rudalics
2020-10-05 18:24                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 11:24                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 11:45                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 11:54                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 12:05                                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 13:07                                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 13:25                                             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:03                                               ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 19:12                                                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:19                                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 19:30                                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:36                                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 11:02                                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 11:32                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 11:54                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 11:58                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 12:02                                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 12:07                                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 12:25                                             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 12:33                                               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 13:19                                                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 13:44                                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:14                                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 19:24                                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:32                                                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-06  6:16                                                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 19:44                                                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 19:49                                                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-06  6:20                                                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 13:13                               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-10-05  7:52                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05  8:22                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Manuel Uberti
2020-10-05  9:40                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical João Távora
2020-10-05 10:53                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 14:49           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-20 15:46             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-18 21:39 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-18 23:27   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19  1:59   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19  4:03     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19  6:15       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19  8:35         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 10:30           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 11:19             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 11:56               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 12:57                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 11:43             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 13:00               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 13:42                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 15:35                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 13:59                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 14:43                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 15:37                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 15:49                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 16:01                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 16:05                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 16:15                           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 16:19                             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 16:58                               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-19 17:06                                 ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 17:21                                   ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-19 20:47                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 22:07                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20  5:31                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 10:47                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 13:04                                         ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 21:40                                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-20  5:45                                       ` feature/icomplete-vertical Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-19 15:55                     ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 10:47           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Ergus
2020-09-19 17:08           ` feature/icomplete-vertical Drew Adams
2020-09-20  0:28             ` feature/icomplete-vertical Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20  1:18               ` feature/icomplete-vertical Drew Adams
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2020-10-02  6:37 feature/icomplete-vertical Manuel Uberti

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