From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bauke Jan Douma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cropped characters on last line before minibuffer Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:53:45 +0200 Organization: a training zoo Message-ID: <467504A9.6000803@xs4all.nl> References: <467436DC.7060609@xs4all.nl> <46746389.8080406@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: bjdouma@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182074061 30585 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 09:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 11:54:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HzrSc-00048p-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:54:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzrSc-0006Yk-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzrSL-0006Xe-1Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzrSJ-0006XA-6Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzrSI-0006WS-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzrSD-0005rY-4H; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.240] (skyscraper.xs4all.nl [82.95.236.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5H9rluT071124; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:53:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bjdouma@xs4all.nl) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45126 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote on 17-06-07 05:07: >> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:26:17 +0200 >> From: Bauke Jan Douma >> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> But the only thing I tell emacs with regard to its frame size is a size >> in columns/characters, i.e.: integral values. >> >> So when emacs decides to give me a half-line, this is a deviation from >> my request, and I would consider that a bug. > > It is not a bug, because the mode line now takes slightly more than > one line, due to its 3D appearance. So Emacs cannot possibly give you > an integral number of lines as soon as you divide the frame into more > than one window. In addition, the menu bar and the tool bar can take > non-integral number of text lines, and the text can use different > fonts in the same buffer (try an Info buffer, for example). Given > these new display features, it is simply impossible to always give you > an integral number of text lines in a frame. Ah yes. Looked at the header-line face, and indeed it had a box around it, which I never had, but must have accidentally crept in while I was modifying the header line (to work with gtk) the other day. Disabled the box, and now I've got the integral lines back. Thanks! bjd