From: Ingo Lohmar <ingo.lohmar@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-frame-size should respect line-spacing!?
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:56:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rvil230.fsf@kenko.localhost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336fynvq4.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Oct 12 2019 12:45 (+0300), Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think we should first decide whether we want to invest such an
> effort to support a rare use case, which is also not without its
> pitfalls (as you describe above).
>
> A buffer can specify, in addition to line-spacing, other display
> features that will affect the metrics of its lines. The simplest
> example is the face of the text to display, which can include the
> font. It could even do this extremely subtly, by displaying text that
> belongs to a script whose font is higher or lower than the default
> face's font. In all of these cases, the original number of text lines
> will be inaccurate for some buffers shown in the same window on the
> same frame.
>
> So I don't think I understand why we need to support these specialized
> use cases.
Just to be clear: While I do think that the relevant code at the C and
the Lisp level is not the easiest to follow, becuase a lot of different
concepts are implicitly involved (sorry Martin, for not remembering your
point about the line-spacing per buffer), I did not intend to start a
fundamental discussion on these issues.
My approach to this whole area was from the point of view of a user of
the posframe pkg (not even directly, but via company-posframe). As
such, the question was "how to create a frame that fits N lines", and of
course, that is ill-defined (line-spacing, font choice subtleties, and
several more factors, I guess).
For the matter at hand, the fixed `fit-frame-to-buffer` does what I need
(or rather, what the posframe pkg needs); the rest is bug-fixing in the
pkg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-12 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-11 20:44 set-frame-size should respect line-spacing!? Ingo Lohmar
2019-10-12 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 7:12 ` Ingo Lohmar
2019-10-12 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 8:25 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-12 8:25 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-12 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 9:56 ` Ingo Lohmar [this message]
2019-10-12 11:03 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-12 13:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 8:16 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-13 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 12:15 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-13 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 12:51 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-13 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 17:06 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-14 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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