GNU bug report logs - #77015
31.0.50; Too many menu bar lines corrupt -nw display

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 77015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77015: 31.0.50; Too many menu bar lines corrupt -nw display
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:44:19 +0200

> Cc: 77015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:04:57 +0100
> 
> Looking at display_menu_bar in xdisp.c I see that only ever one line of
> menu-bar is displayed, the rest of the lines are cleared. Which begs the
> question what this is good for, IMO. Maybe one should just restrict the
> valid values of menu-bar-lines to 0 and 1.

If the frame is very narrow, we sometimes need more than one menu-bar
line.  And that is not limited to TTY menu bars (so you will not find
that in xdisp.c).
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