Re: size hints and tiling window managers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:33:36 +0100
> 
> I have tried to adjust the _height_ of the mode-line face.  This caused
> the last line of the text area to be displayed only partially and the
> height of the extra space below the echo area did not change as we had
> hoped.
> 
> I also tried using the display property:
> 
> ,----
> | (setq mode-line-format
> |       (list "" 'mode-line-buffer-identification
> |           (propertize " " 'display '((space :height (30))))))
> `----

Thanks.  I guess some of my assumptions about how the echo-area size
is determined were wrong.  I will take a look when I have time.

> is there actually a way to have a multi-line mode-line?

No.