bug#10409: Minibuffer sized according to default face, not minibuffer face

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

X-Debbugs-CC: Jeremy Thurgood <firxen@gmail.com>


Jeremy,
can you please try this out with the latest nightly build (Emacs 24), available from http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
and update this bug with the version number (and ideally everything from Help->Diagnosis->Report Bug).
Please use Help->Diagnosis->Start without customizations.

Thanks
- David


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jeremy Thurgood <firxen@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] Minibuffer sized according to default face, not minibuffer face
> Date: December 29, 2011 9:52:52 AM GMT+01:00
> To: aquamacs-bugs@aquamacs.org
> Reply-To: Bug reports for Aquamacs Emacs <aquamacs-bugs@aquamacs.org>
> 
> Good day,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it's just non-obvious behaviour,
> 
> The height of the minibuffer (in pixels) is set in increments of the
> line height for the default face. If the echo area face (the one from
> which all minibuffer faces inherit) is slightly taller than the
> default face, this means that the minibuffer is one line high when
> empty and two lines high if there's anything in it. As a consequence,
> the minibuffer is constantly resizing, which is visually jarring. In
> my case, I set my default face to a font that is a little shorter then
> Lucida Grande (the default font for the echo area face) and ran into
> this behaviour. It can be replicated merely by setting the echo area
> face's height to a large scale -- 1.5 will do.
> 
> As a workaround, the height of the minibuffer face can be adjusted to
> a scale less than 1.0 to make the line height fit. Alternatively, the
> font can be changed to one that fits better. In my case, I just
> removed the override and allowed it to inherit the font from my
> default face. It looks a bit uglier, but it lets me avoid tinkering
> with the height whenever I change the default font.
> 
> Thanks,
> --J