Subject: Re: bug#18195: 24.3.92; window-screen-lines is not accurate

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:16:40 +0200

> Have you tried Company?

No.

 > This issue is about completion popup, which displays completions in the current buffer and window, in a rectangle rendered using an overlay. There are screenshots in that issue thread.
 >
 > Before the popup is rendered, we need to determine how much of it would fit below the current line, and if there's not enough space, we render it above the current line.

Aha... Could you try whether `window-text-pixel-size' could be used for
that?  IIUC you'd have to call it twice: Once for calculating how much
space you need and once for how much space is left below the current
line.  `window-text-height' with PIXELWISE t should give you the overall
height of the window.

 > Even if the buffer is shorter than the window, we can temporarily pad it, so when calculating the height of the window, we need to take the whole of it into account. That's why `count-screen-line' doesn't seem like a good approach either.

If things like line spacing are involved you really should calculate
pixelwise.

martin