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24.3.92; window-screen-lines is not accurate

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Message #115 received at 18195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 18195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18195: 24.3.92; window-screen-lines is not accurate
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:23:51 +0300

> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:41:21 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> CC: 18195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 08/06/2014 06:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > That's because the
> > candidates are displayed by Company by putting overlays on consecutive
> > lines of text, each overlay showing one candidate.
> 
> Not really. We have a pull request that changes the code to do what 
> you're describing, but for the moment we only use one overlay at a time.

I'm talking about a kind of menu of candidates, which definitely takes
more than one line.  That cannot be done with a single overlay, unless
you copy the buffer text into the overlay string, and completely cover
the buffer text itself.

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