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[PATCH] Update information about fonts

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 14993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14993: [PATCH] Update information about fonts
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 13:06:37 +0200

>>>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:25:23 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
    >> I guess you'd need to be a bit careful that successive frames didnʼt
    >> overlap with previous ones (especially the last one).

    Lars> Yeah...  hm...  and with images that may overlap when "scrolling down".
    Lars> Well, that's a problem in general: A frame may show half a line at the
    Lars> bottom, for instance, and we don't really want that when printing the
    Lars> buffer.

binding frame-resize-pixelwise to nil I think solves the line issue,
not necessarily the image issue.

    Lars> So it would take more than just wrapping that function to have a
    Lars> workable solution...

Could you create a single frame that shows the entire buffer and use
that? Probably that would run into problems with window managers not
letting you create frames larger than the screen size.

Robert

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