Re: master 91418d27e9: Add new functions for computing character metrics for windows

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Any reason not to group them under the same heading?

I thought the "probably introduced" thing only looked in the headings?
And they were too long for one heading.

>> +    (let* ((face (if face face 'default))
>
> (or face 'default) ?

Yup; now done.

> Any chance we could have a `cl-defstruct` for those font-info objects, so
> we can use names rather than magic constants?  Alternatively a short
> comment here explaining the difference between 11 and 10 would be nice.

Sure, a defstruct would be nice.

>> +(defun window-max-characters-per-line (&optional window face)
>
> The name says "max", but AFAICT it's basically "window width / *average*
> char width", so it's not really the "max" number of chars (unsurprisingly).
>
> I'm not sure how best to name it (and document it), tho.
> For that I think I'd need to know what are the use cases (to see what
> property they rely on).

The use case basically is that you want to draw monospaced things that
aren't too wide, but the function was made a bit more general.

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