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Re: window-width, the terminal and linum-mode


From: Hans-Peter Deifel
Subject: Re: window-width, the terminal and linum-mode
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:22:37 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

On Di, Dez 25 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I was looking in "(elisp) Window Sizes" for a function to give me the
>> width of the text area of a window and found `window-body-width'.
>> However, this function gives me different results in terminal and GUI
>> modes, when linum-mode is enabled.
>> 
>> In terminal emacs, `window-body-width' includes the width of the line
>> number, while in gui emacs it doesn't. In both cases, the line number
>> width is returned correctly by `(window-margins)'.
>
> It's a bug in window-body-width, now fixed in the development sources,
> thanks to your report.  It should exclude the display margins from the
> width calculation on TTYs as well.

Very cool. Thank you very much.

HP


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