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24.0.50; `fit-window-to-buffer': take display artefacts into account

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 7822-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7822: 24.0.50; `fit-window-to-buffer': take display artefacts
 into account
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:42:57 +0200

> But is this enhancement request really fulfilled?  The paragraph
> after the intro one that you quote from the ER specifically
> states the requirement:
>
>    How much it tries to do so should be under programmer
>    control, so that, e.g., one could tell it (e.g. via a new
>    optional parameter) not to take any display stuff into account
>    (i.e., to treat the buffer content as just plain text with a
>    fixed-width font of the current char size).
>
> And the ER explicitly refers to this emacs-devel thread for
> details: "`fit-window-to-buffer-as-displayed'?", 2011-01-10:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00323.html

The current behavior is, in fact, based on Stefan's remark that

  There's no point trying to add support for some properties but not all:
  adding support for all properties is likely to be easier because it'd
  rely on (re)using the existing display code.

in that thread.

> And of course, how users can control the behavior needs to be
> well documented.
>
> Is this ER really addressed?  I don't have a Windows binary
> more recent than 2014-08-15 to test (they are no longer being
> built, it seems).

The changes are from 2013 so the binaries you have should include them.

> If so, then yes this should be closed.
>
> If not then it should not be closed, even if it is good that
> some progress has apparently been made.  Thanks.

If you can give a practical example where the present code fails to do
what you want, feel free to reopen the bug.

Thanks, martin

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