GNU bug report logs - #19972
24.4; Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 02:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #155 received at 19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 "19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19972: 24.4;
 Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:26:50 +0100

> Lisp code that expects resize changes to be handeled synchronously and in order are fundamentally broken.
>
> That said, it may very well be a race here, i.e. the wrong height gets sent.  But this is only because bad Lisp code assumes synchronous handling.

Fully agreed.  Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to explain this
to users :-(

BTW what is the x_wait_for_event in x_set_window_size_1 then really
needed for?

martin
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