Re: set-frame-size should respect line-spacing!?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ingo.lohmar@posteo.net
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:06:52 +0200
> 
>  > I think the only case where the issues raised by bug#14825 should
>  > matter is when we decide whether a window is too small.  E.g., what
>  > bad things will happen if we interpret window-min-height in terms of
>  > the default face's font set for the buffer shown (or to be shown) in
>  > the window?
> 
> Such an interpretation would cut both ways.  Think of people that use
> 'line-spacing' for ages or have remapped the default face font to
> something higher.  They would be surprised that C-x 2 all of a sudden
> complains that their window is "too small for splitting".

I very much doubt that, since less than 4 lines in a window is hardly
useful.

> Also note that often the buffer to be shown in the new window, for
> example via 'pop-to-buffer', is unknown to 'split-window'.

In that case, let us behave as we do currently.

> I'm not against a fix for Bug#14825.  But doing it in a clean and
> consistent way will be pretty hard.

I'm not going to lament its not being solved; it was you who brought
it into this discussion.  I suggest to proceed with the original
discussion disregarding that bug for now.