From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:44:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C89F3E3.6080804@swipnet.se> <4C8A3D5F.10502@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284210653 8827 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 13:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7004@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 15:10:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPqy-0003KB-8J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:10:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuPqx-0001LB-Gy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45593 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuPqa-0001DN-7u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPqY-0005Am-Da for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58048) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPqY-0005Ah-AS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPQ6-0000da-61; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7004 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7004-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7004.12842089332382 (code B ref 7004); Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7004) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2010 12:42:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPPJ-0000cN-7D for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuPPG-0000c5-J7 for 7004@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost1.adm.correo ([10.20.102.38]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 5PXZ1f0090piX6q3MQk7Mp; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:44:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.39.212]) by IMPmailhost1.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 5Qk51f0054aeRwb1hQk5lY; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:44:07 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 57B0E660D2; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:44:05 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4C8A3D5F.10502@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?="'s message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:14:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:43:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:40089 Archived-At: >> It's clearly not a feature, so I'd qualify it as a bug. >> The bug being that Emacs's display code insists on using "character >> cells" as measuring unit. Kim had started working on lifting this >> restriction, but I don't know if anything came out of it, > That doesn't matter. When you say to the window manager to put Emacs in > fullscreen, the height will be 1024 pixels (if that is what you have). > And there will be a remainder that is not zero. What do you purpose Emacs > does with this extra space? Display more text. Maybe it will be part of a line, just like is already the case if you have some fonts that aren't of the same height as the "cell". Most of my Elisp windows already end on a partial line, apparently because the face I use for the docstrings doesn't have the same height as my default face. So in my case, the extra pixels might happen to result in "showing the missing pixels of the last line" in some cases ;-) Stefan PS: And I did not say it was an easy thing to do, although back when Kim mentioned his attempt, I mentioned that one way out would be to always specify a default face of size 1 pixel (and then play tricks to never actually use that face, of course).