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

From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
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 13:08:36 +0100

martin rudalics skrev den 2015-03-03 12:26:
>  > 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?


Its an attempt to be nice to Lisp.  It can fail and time out.

	Jan D.
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