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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making windows have same number of columns
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:37:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87360u7qv1.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rgfu63v.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:05:08 +0100")

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:05:08 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:19:48 +0100 daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
>
>> A solution could be to make a defun that performs (text-scale-adjust -)
>> until (window-body-width) is less than a number N.
>
> Instead of changing the window width, one at first sight plausible idea
> is to check the column at the end the longest line in the buffer after
> each application of text-scale-adjust; unfortunately, this doesn't work,
> because using text-scale-adjust does not change how many columns a line
> takes up: e.g., if the longest line ends at column 82 and
> window-body-width is 72, then after apply text-scale-adjust until the
> longest line appears to be shorter than 72, it still ends at column 82.
> In other words, text-scale-adjust also adjusts the column width.  So
> that approach won't work.  I can't think off hand of a way to get what
> you want, but maybe someone else knows a way.

I did think of a way after all:

(defun srb-shrink-font ()
  "Shrink font to make longest line fit in window width."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let ((max 0) line)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (not (eobp))
	(let* ((inhibit-field-text-motion t)
	       (col (progn (end-of-line) (current-column))))
	  (when (> col max)
	    (setq max col)
	    (setq line (line-beginning-position)))
	  (forward-line)))
      (goto-char line))
    (let ((eol (line-end-position))
	  (eovl (lambda () (progn (end-of-visual-line) (point)))))
      (while (> eol (funcall eovl))
	(let ((text-scale-mode-step 1.05))
	  (text-scale-decrease 1))))))

But I suspect there will be many cases where the result isn't really
satisfying.  You can experiment with text-scale-mode-step: in the above
I let-bound it to the smallest value that seemed to work reasonably
well, but sometimes it still seems to shrink the font too much and other
times not enough.  I think this has to do with the algorithm
text-scale-adjust uses to change the size, using exponentiation, which
means that sometimes the change will be too small for the available font
sizes and other times too large.  I also didn't implement the case of
increasing the font size, because the only way I could think of to do
that involves increasing too much and then decreasing again, which
probably is visually annoying.

Steve Berman



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-27 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26 14:43 Making windows have same number of columns daniela-spit
2020-11-26 16:03 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 16:18   ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 17:16   ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:26   ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:55     ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 19:01       ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 19:21         ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 19:30           ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 19:41             ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 20:22               ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 20:31                 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 21:19                   ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 22:05                     ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 23:01                       ` Drew Adams
2020-11-26 23:07                         ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 23:55                           ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27  0:51                             ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27  1:03                               ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27 15:37                       ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-11-26 21:42                   ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27 20:40                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-26 19:33           ` daniela-spit

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