Re: completion buffer - unsuitable column width

[Stefan Monnier]

>          (window (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) 0))
>          (wwidth (if window (1- (window-width window)) 79))
> ...

> In my case, I use face-remapping-alist to assign different faces for the
> frame default face and the buffer default face.  This causes  "window-width"
> to return a figure that does not indicate how much text  can be fit in one
> line in that window.

> I don't know how to fix this given that there seems to be no way to
> calculate the (average) character width of text with a given face.

That's unfortunate, indeed.

> I haven't encountered such an issue with 22.

The code in Emacs-22, just used a hard-coded 79.


        Stefan