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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:46:42 +0200

Jan Djärv <[email-masked]> writes:

> 10 sep 2010 kl. 18:59 skrev Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>:
>
>> Jan Djärv <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>>> That doesn't matter.  When you say to the window manager to put Eamcs in
>>> fullscreen, the height will be 1024 pixels (if that is what you have).
>>> And there will be a remainder that is not zero.  What do you purpose Emacs
>>> does with this extra space?  Even if we don't have any restrictions, we
>>> can't display a line in this leftover space.
>> 
>> It only requires pixel granularity for the window heights to be able to
>> distribute the leftover space to the windows.
>
> That doesn't make sense. Distribute where?

Just enlarge them, instead of the echo area.  What's so hard to
understand that?

Andreas.

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