bug#53478: closed (26.3; Document text-terminal (non)support of pixel-relevant features)

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regarding 26.3; Document text-terminal (non)support of pixel-relevant features
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> 26.3; Document text-terminal (non)support of pixel-relevant features
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> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:25:12 +0000
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> I tried to help with this user question:
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> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/70231/105
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> I'm no expert on this.  I guessed that Emacs in terminal mode can't
> support most pixel-level operations.
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> I wanted to point the user to the Emacs manual about this.  I tried to
> find info about it with `i' using keyword `terminal' (even with
> substring matching for completions).  I found nothing.  Likewise, with
> keyword `pixel'.
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> I then used `C-s' to search the manual for `terminal', with no luck.  I
> then tried searching the manual for `pixel'.  The only relevant info I
> found was Glossary entry Text Terminal.
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> Assuming I just searched poorly, please consider adding some index
> entries for this information.  If the info is missing, apart from that
> caveat in the Glossary, please consider adding some relevant info.
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> In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2019-08-29
> Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19043
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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> Re: bug#53478: 26.3; Document text-terminal (non)support of pixel-relevant features
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> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:53:42 +0200
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> > From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:25:12 +0000
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> > I tried to help with this user question:
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> > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/70231/105
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> > I'm no expert on this.  I guessed that Emacs in terminal mode can't
> > support most pixel-level operations.
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> That question has nothing to do with pixel-level operations.  It asks
> about functions like x-display-pixel-width that are not available in a
> build --without-x.
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> > I wanted to point the user to the Emacs manual about this.  I tried to
> > find info about it with `i' using keyword `terminal' (even with
> > substring matching for completions).  I found nothing.  Likewise, with
> > keyword `pixel'.
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> I see no reason to say in the manual anything about this that we don't
> already do.  Every place that talks about pixels either says it's
> relevant to graphical displays, or discusses stiff that is only
> relevant to GUI.  The doc string of x-display-pixel-width, for
> example, says:
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>   Return the width in pixels of the X display TERMINAL.
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^
> So I don't think we should do anything here, and I'm closing this bug
> report.
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