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(window-body-height) Reporting Too Large of Value

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Message #15 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, William Carroll <wpcarro <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43105: (window-body-height) Reporting Too Large of Value
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 07:29:58 -0700

tags 43105 notabug
close 43105
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: William Carroll <wpcarro <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:10:17 +0100
>>
>> I believe `(window-body-height)` does not account for non-zero `line-spacing` amounts. This causes
>> `(window-body-height)` in graphical Emacs to report values larger than the number of lines of text that can
>> render on the screen.
>
> window-body-height reports the height of the window's body in units of
> canonical character height:
>
>   If PIXELWISE is nil, return the largest integer smaller than WINDOW’s
>   pixel height divided by the character height of WINDOW’s frame.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Thus, window-body-height is by design insensitive to factors like
> non-default fonts, line-spacing, etc.
>
>> This affects programs like vterm.el and others that rely on `(window-body-height)`. In my particular case,
>> when I ran `man` and `less` from vterm.el, it rendered things above the top "fold" of the screen.
>
> Then the bug is in vterm.el: it should use other APIs to get the
> dimensions in terms of actual number of lines in the window.  The
> function window-body-height works as intended.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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