Re: window-height function lies!

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

>> But, the remarkable result is that, the value returned by
>> window-height turns to be *false* when the buffer contains a line
>> longer that the screen width (a line that continues on the following
>> line).



Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:

> I was a little confused by this sentence at first.  Because no matter
> how long I made the lines, `window-height' remained the same.  But then
> I understood, you think it should get smaller, because fewer lines are
> displayed, right?


Yes, that's right.


> However `window-height' is related to the window and
> independent of the buffer.  It relates to `move-to-window-line', not
> `goto-line'.
>
> You might want to use:
>
> (1+ (count-lines (window-start) (window-end)))


All right that works for `too long' lines.  But still window-height fails in
info buffers and TeX mode buffers, that contain chapter and node titles with
bigger characters.  Any way to solve that?

Thanks
Rodolfo