Re: MS Windows Frame Maximize in .emacs (again)

[LENNART BORGMAN]

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> > I think the changes below should make maximized frames behave 
> better on
> > w32. They try to prevent changing the size of a frame that is 
> maximized.>
> > This change remove the bug that a maximized frame does not fit 
> the whole
> > screen. It also removes the bug that a maximezed frame can be moved.
> 
> The "bug" used to be there because Emacs required an integer 
> number of lines on
> the screen. Now that Emacs handles different sized fonts, this 
> restriction may
> not be needed anymore, in which case we should remove it 
> completely on all
> platforms, not just for maximized frames on Windows. But I am not 
> convincedthat scrolling code and other code that works with 
> "pages" has been adapted to
> work with non inteeger numbers of lines measured in the default 
> font yet.


I see, that is what I thought. But changing the size of a maximized window on 
w32 confuses the w32 window handler a bit I guess. It would be good to avoid 
this.