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Re: Shrinking mini windows to one pixel height
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martin rudalics |
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Re: Shrinking mini windows to one pixel height |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:28:19 +0100 |
> Does the capability or making a mini window 1-pixel tall cause us any
> trouble? If not, I'd prefer not to block it, let alone do that on the
> release branch.
Fine with me.
> If you feel strongly about disabling this by default, on behalf of the
> innocent and the naïve, I could agree with a defcustom that would do
> that. Maybe.
So let's wait for an innocent or naïve to speak up.
> In any case, limiting this to frame-char-height sounds too harsh to
> me, because using a suitably selected font one could produce quite
> legible text in the mini window of a significantly smaller size.
> E.g., AFAIR sizes as small as half that don't even trigger
> reallocation of the glyph matrices, because their original allocation
> tolerates up to twice as many screen lines as determined by the
> frame's default font.
Ideally we would remember the pixel height of the first text line and
never shrink it to anything less than that.
martin