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27.0.50; fit-frame-to-buffer does not account for line-spacing

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Ingo Lohmar <ingo.lohmar <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 37563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37563: 27.0.50; fit-frame-to-buffer does not account for
 line-spacing
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:10:37 +0200

> 4) *My interpretation* of `frame-resize-pixelwise' is that the default
> value, nil, has a single intention: To make the frame height an exact
> multiple of lines (and char width), mainly because of aesthetic reasons.
> In that case, I suggest we change the doc-string (which has some
> inaccurate phrasing and is a bit wordy, anyway) to say that it nil will
> round to a multiple of the default line height (incl line spacing)..

We cannot reliably do that.  Suppose a frame has two windows with
different line heights.  Which one would we choose for rounding the
frame size?  'frame-char-height' is canonical.

martin

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