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Actual height of mode-line not taken into account

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, jonas <at> bernoul.li
Cc: 38181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38181: Actual height of mode-line not taken into account
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 09:20:27 +0100

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> I think fit-window-to-buffer relies on window's metrics (like the
> number of lines in the text area) to be up to date, and that is only
> true after a window was redisplayed once since changing the mode-line
> height.  Martin, is this correct?

Yes.  But, as I mentioned earlier, the problem shows up with the
scroll bar immediately when Jonas' form is evaluated, see the attached
screenshot.  Code like 'fit-window-to-buffer' works on the text area
only, it doesn't care whether a scroll bar or mode line changed size
since last redisplay.

martin

[mode-line-vs-scroll-bar.png (image/png, attachment)]

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