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24.3.50; reression: `set-frame-size' loses mode line

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 16923 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16923: 24.3.50; reression: `set-frame-size' loses mode line
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:53:59 +0100

>> Anyway - the two puzzling aspects are that the mode line apparently gets
>> erased (who can do such a thing to the mode line?) while the header line
>> remains unharmed.
>
> Wrt the mode line, let me correct something I said earlier.
>
> I thought that the space was there for the mode line, but without
> the mode line text, faces, mouseover etc., i.e., as if there were
> an extra blank buffer line.  I was wrong about that.
>
> Checking again, I see that the buffer text extends to the bottom frame
> border, just as it does when frame parameter `modeline' has value nil.
> IOW, the mode line is apparently just not there; it is not just that it
> is displayed wrong.  However, `frame-parameters' shows the `mode-line'
> parameter value to be `t'.

This is a completely different situation.  In addition, it probably
happens only when you want to enlarge the frame.  A timing problem,
likely.  Does the frame have at least an external border at the bottom?

martin

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