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

[Jan Djärv]

2010-09-16 06:06, Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:45:40 +0200
> > From: Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> > CC: martin rudalics<rudalics@gmx.at>, 7004@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > If all of this is true, then how do we succeed to display partial
> > > lines with the existing ``pixel-challenged'' display engine?  What am
> > > I missing?
> >
> > Partial lines are only displayed when one or more lines isn't the size of the
> > canonical font size, like the info dir page for example.  But the window as a
> > whole is still a multiple of the canonical font size.
>
> That's true, but it doesn't answer my question.  My question was how
> do we manage to display such windows when that happens.  Martin seemed
> to be saying that we cannot possibly do that, but in fact we do.

I imagine the display engine notice that there are leftover pixels and renders 
another line.  Clipping takes care of the rest.  This is the easy part, I 
guess that is why it has been done.

        Jan D.