GNU bug report logs - #14825
24.3.50; split-window-below miscounts window lines

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Message #17 received at 14825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 14825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14825: 24.3.50; split-window-below miscounts window lines
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:42:15 +0300

> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:20:17 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> CC: 14825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  >> Currently, all window and frame sizing functions are based on canonical
>  >> character sizes.  This will change when we do resizing pixelwise.
>  >
>  > Resizing is only part of the problem.  There are functions that are
>  > unrelated to resizing, which report dimensions in canonical units.
>  > They should at least document this fact in the doc string, if not fix
>  > it.  (The fix is not too hard, btw; see window-screen-lines for an
>  > example.)
> 
> How would you report the size of an internal window composed of two leaf
> windows showing buffers with different default character sizes?

As a sum of the line counts of the two children, obviously.

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