Re: cropped characters on last line before minibuffer

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Eli Zaretskii wrote on 17-06-07 05:07:
> > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:26:17 +0200
> > From: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
> > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > But the only thing I tell emacs with regard to its frame size is a size
> > in columns/characters, i.e.: integral values.
> >
> > So when emacs decides to give me a half-line, this is a deviation from
> > my request, and I would consider that a bug.
>
> It is not a bug, because the mode line now takes slightly more than
> one line, due to its 3D appearance.  So Emacs cannot possibly give you
> an integral number of lines as soon as you divide the frame into more
> than one window.  In addition, the menu bar and the tool bar can take
> non-integral number of text lines, and the text can use different
> fonts in the same buffer (try an Info buffer, for example).  Given
> these new display features, it is simply impossible to always give you
> an integral number of text lines in a frame.

Ah yes.  Looked at the header-line face, and indeed it had a box around it,
which I never had, but must have accidentally crept in while I was modifying
the header line (to work with gtk) the other day.
Disabled the box, and now I've got the integral lines back.

Thanks!

bjd