GNU bug report logs - #19194
24.4.50; `window-body-width' is not dynamic relative to font size changes

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 19194 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19194: bug#20022: 24.4.90; window-body-height, window-body-width wrong value after text-scale-adjust
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:16:04 +0100

Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Adjusting the font size, I would expect that the window's "body width"
> would change -- more characters can be fit into the same amount of
> screen space.  Current behaviour does not match this expectation.
>
> M-: (window-body-width) RET  [Note result.]
> C-x C--
> M-: (window-body-width) RET  [Result is the same.]
>
> The function is described:
>
> "This function returns the width, in columns, of the body of window
> window."
>
> If for some reason the "nominal" number of columns needs to calculated
> with reference to the default font, then there should be another
> function to return the "actual" number of columns.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Skimming this thread, I think the conclusion here is that these
functions work as designed.  `C-x C--' reduces the size of the font in
the current buffer, but the "window body width" concept remains the
same.  (I.e., if you create a new buffer and display it, that's what
`window-body-width' is telling you the number of columns for.)

So I don't think there's anything to do here, and I'm closing this bug
report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.