bug#36250: [PATCH] Allow Emacs to be resized arbitrarily

[martin rudalics]

>> Doesn't that imply that one cannot use Follow Mode for *info* buffers?
>
> Follow mode indeed has known problems in these situations.

Ever since, I suppose.  Why is it difficult to fix them?

>> In general, you cannot "disable" partial lines on graphical displays
>> any more.
>
> Actually, that was true since Emacs 21.  What became true only lately
> is that a window that occupies its whole frame can also have a
> fractional number of lines, even when all the characters are displayed
> in the default face.  That used to be not so in the past.

Because we now do not show unidentified slack space below such a
window (or pretend that it's part of the echo area) but rather add
such space to the bottommost windows of each frame.

martin