Re: [ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com: display-pixel behavior changed on Mac OS X]

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>> Would someone please update the documentation string of
>> x-display-pixel-width, and the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual?

>     Something like "When the screen spans multiple monitors, the function
>     returns the width (height) of the whole screen"?  It looks a bit
>     superfluous to me.

> It is not superfluous to document these primitives correctly.

> Would someone who knows precisely what these functions now do
> please document them?

I think the most important part is to document the terminology in the
manual to clearly distinguish display/screen/framebuffer/...

And then maybe add a note to every docstring referring to this part of
the manual, like "See <foobar> for the differences between screens,
displays, and frambuffers".


        Stefan