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24.3.92; window-screen-lines is not accurate

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Message #121 received at 18195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 20:26:44 +0400

On 08/06/2014 08:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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.

Indeed, that's what we do currently.

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