GNU bug report logs - #7004
23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:13:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 15046

Found in versions 23.2, 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #49 received at 7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#7004: 23.2;
	In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:56:49 +0200

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:

> That is not precise enough.

Use your imagination.

>  Enlarge where?  At the top?  At the bottom?

Isn't that obvious?

> If we use at the top for example, that would look equally bad IMHO as the
> current situation.

Yes, of course.  Why would you want to do that?

> Besides from more or less rewrite the display engine of course.

Does it?  As I already said, the key point is to be able to specify the
window sizes in pixel granularity, and the display engine can already
handle font sizes that are not a whole mutiple of a character cell.

Andreas.

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