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

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
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 12:06:14 +0200


Andreas Schwab skrev 2010-09-11 10.56:
> Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>  writes:

>
>> 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.
>

Using pixel instead of character as a unit of measure has been on the wishlist 
for a long time (in TODO since 2000).  As nobody has so far been able to do it 
makes me think it is quite hard.

	Jan D.
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