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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:01:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at 36250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#36250: [PATCH] Allow Emacs to be resized arbitrarily
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:49:18 +0300

> Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 36250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:17:55 +0200
> 
>  >> Doesn't that imply that one cannot use Follow Mode for *info* buffers?
>  >
>  > Follow mode indeed has known problems in these situations.
> 
> Ever since, I suppose.  Why is it difficult to fix them?

Lack of resources, mainly.  Follow mode tries to force the display
engine do something, and that is tricky, as we know.  Maybe it uses
the wrong hooks, or maybe we need a new hook just for this mode.
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