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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:06:21 +0200

> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:45:40 +0200
> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
> CC: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 7004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > If all of this is true, then how do we succeed to display partial
> > lines with the existing ``pixel-challenged'' display engine?  What am
> > I missing?
> 
> Partial lines are only displayed when one or more lines isn't the size of the 
> canonical font size, like the info dir page for example.  But the window as a 
> whole is still a multiple of the canonical font size.

That's true, but it doesn't answer my question.  My question was how
do we manage to display such windows when that happens.  Martin seemed
to be saying that we cannot possibly do that, but in fact we do.
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