From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in frame-width Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:37:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200408100259.i7A2xiF19311@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200408120151.i7C1poG03775@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200408121812.i7CICrK04649@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092346720 19989 80.91.224.253 (12 Aug 2004 21:38:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Jan D." , Luc Teirlinck , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 23:38:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BvNHH-00008p-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:38:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BvNLC-0004j7-Jk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BvNL4-0004iw-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BvNL2-0004ic-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BvNL2-0004iZ-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BvNGm-0006g3-R9; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D7EA43838; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Yow: I feel real SOPHISTICATED being in FRANCE! In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "12 Aug 2004 21:14:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26257 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26257 David Kastrup writes: > And actually, I want my Emacs windows typically to be 80 characters > wide and about 740 pixels tall. And when I change the font size, I > still want them 80 characters wide and 740 pixels tall. I second that. When changing the number of columns lines may wrap at different places which can be distracting. When changing the number of lines the only change is how many lines are visible towards the bottom, which has much less visible effect. (The situation is somewhat different if you have mutiple windows.) Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."