From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: completion buffer - unsuitable column width
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:21:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk5767kqp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92CD418E-2240-448E-A9A6-CBC7C580AFD8@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:23:49 -0500")
> OK, perhaps we could use something like
> (if (assq 'default face-remapping-alist) 79 (window-width))
> to cover at least the case that I've encountered.
I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.
> A grep over the source, looking for (window-width), reveals other
> suspicious uses.
No doubt. This is just another instance of the long standing problem
that all/most of the code presumes fixed-width fonts (and of a single
width shared by all fonts) as was the case in Emacs<21.
> "window-buffer-width", giving the average (expected) number of columns in
> a window for text in the default face applicable to the buffer shown in
> a given window.
Yes, that could help.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 19:13 completion buffer - unsuitable column width David Reitter
2009-03-03 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-03 13:23 ` David Reitter
2009-03-03 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-03 15:47 ` David Reitter
2009-03-03 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-03 16:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-03 16:33 ` Jonathan Rockway
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