From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Minor misunderstanding of the Emacs tutorial Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:01:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83hatq5c8i.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341248484 16938 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2012 17:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:01:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 02 19:01:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Slk01-0008Cd-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Slk00-00056R-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sljzv-00055Y-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sljzo-0003u3-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sljzo-0003tV-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M6J00000LUWE100@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:01:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M6J00096LXTF400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:01:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85629 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:05:31 +0300 > From: Valera Rozuvan > > "Note that there is an overlap of two lines when you move from screen > to screen; this provides some continuity so you can continue reading > the text." > > However, I get an overlap of three lines. I am using GNU Emacs > 24.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) under X. Is this a > configuration option which differs with each new build? Or is this > part of the tutorial from the old days, when the overlap was actually > two lines? No, the default is still the same. However, depending on the font you are using, it could be that the a partial or even a whole 3rd line will show, because when variable-size fonts are involved, it is hard to compute in advance how many pixels to move for N lines. Try in "emacs -nw", and I think you will see 2-line overlap. If that doesn't happen, either, perhaps there are local changes to your Emacs.