bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

[Andreas Schwab]

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

> 10 sep 2010 kl. 18:59 skrev Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
>
>> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>> 
>>> That doesn't matter.  When you say to the window manager to put Eamcs in
>>> fullscreen, the height will be 1024 pixels (if that is what you have).
>>> And there will be a remainder that is not zero.  What do you purpose Emacs
>>> does with this extra space?  Even if we don't have any restrictions, we
>>> can't display a line in this leftover space.
>> 
>> It only requires pixel granularity for the window heights to be able to
>> distribute the leftover space to the windows.
>
> That doesn't make sense. Distribute where?

Just enlarge them, instead of the echo area.  What's so hard to
understand that?

Andreas.

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