Subject: Re: bug#18601: 24.3.94; set-fringe-mode with left fringe 0 breaks window width calculations on Mac OS

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:55:04 +0200

>> Did you really change that in between 24.3.93 and 24.3.94?
 >
 > Yes, in r117500.  That was one part of fixing display of truncated R2L
 > lines in the many use cases you presented.

Meanwhile I came to that conclusion as well ;-)

 > Btw, a simple way to avoid this side effect is to have a 1-pixel left
 > fringe, i.e. "pay" 1 pixel.  That's not a high cost, IMO, if the
 > motivation for removing the left fringe is to have 1 more column
 > available for the same frame size.

This won't work on NS Emasc 24-4 which rounds pixel to column values.

martin