From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: <44E97A1D.4030808@student.lu.se> References: <44E73CD6.80207@gnu.org> <874pw86284.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <44E79204.9030505@gnu.org> <87y7tj4y5l.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156152027 17510 80.91.229.2 (21 Aug 2006 09:20:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ralf Angeli , jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 11:20:25 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 1GF5xA-0006SZ-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5x9-0001Zg-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5uP-0000J8-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5uL-0000IQ-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GF5uL-0000I9-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GF61f-0003Ww-9K; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44E94C2000010067; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:17:18 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: 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:58605 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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. > Is it not clear from this discussions that the only way to surely get accurate sizes in this case is that the user specifies them?