GNU bug report logs - #36250
Allow Emacs to be resized arbitrarily

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 36250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36250: [PATCH] Allow Emacs to be resized arbitrarily
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:38:39 +0300

> Cc: 36250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:43:57 +0200
> 
>  > Also, I remember vaguely partial lines causing problems in Follow Mode in
>  > the past.
> 
> Doesn't that imply that one cannot use Follow Mode for *info* buffers?

Follow mode indeed has known problems in these situations.

> In general, you cannot "disable" partial lines on graphical displays
> any more.

Actually, that was true since Emacs 21.  What became true only lately
is that a window that occupies its whole frame can also have a
fractional number of lines, even when all the characters are displayed
in the default face.  That used to be not so in the past.

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