FW: fit-frame.el

[Drew Adams]

Resending for review.

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> From: Richard Stallman Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:42 PM
> Would people please read the file fit-frame.el
> that was sent by Drew Adams on Dec 30, and comment on it?

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> From: Drew Adams Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:02 PM
> Attached is library `fit-frame.el', for possible inclusion in Emacs.
> 
> Command `fit-frame' fits a frame to its buffer(s). See the 
> doc string, in particular, for the use of a prefix arg. A 
> common use is to fit a one-window frame to its buffer. 
> 
> Users can set minimum and maximum width and height limits. 
> Within those limits, the width of a one-window frame that has 
> been fit accommodates all of the buffer lines without 
> wrapping, and the height accommodates all of the buffer lines.
> 
> Please give it a try. Let me know, especially, how well it 
> works on different platforms and with different kinds of 
> buffers. I've tried to take into account the menu-bar, 
> minibuffer, and tool-bar, and I've tried to compensate for 
> long header lines in some buffers, such as Dired. 
> 
> Wrt the last point: header lines can be wrapped in some modes 
> - see option `fit-frame-skip-header-lines-alist'. In these 
> cases, a header line is ignored, in order not to let its 
> exceptional length skew the width measurement. Example: Dired 
> with `dired-details' hiding details - the frame is only as 
> wide as the longest file-name length, not the directory name 
> in the header line.
> 
> Note too that if a buffer contains faces larger than the 
> default for the frame, or characters that are extra-wide, 
> then fitting is not perfect. For example, TAB characters in 
> Info menus can in some cases cause a menu line to wrap, and 
> likewise for the slightly larger characters of raised buttons 
> in Customize. This is because the computed size is based only 
> on the frame's default character size.

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