Subject: Re: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:39:13 +0200

> in to it so it shows up at the botton as unused space.  Any window height
> that isn't an integral of the font height will show like this.
> There is no bug here,

It's clearly not a feature, so I'd qualify it as a bug.
The bug being that Emacs's display code insists on using "character
cells" as measuring unit.  Kim had started working on lifting this
restriction, but I don't know if anything came out of it,

        Stefan