Re: Terminal view alignment at bottom might be better

[Torsten]

On 23.06.2013 10:06, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/22/2013 09:21 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> 
>> The code in this file is derived from somewhere else, so I'm not sure
>> how we handle this situation. Just make edits?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I suppose there are two ways to address this:
>>
>> 1) Allow alignment at the top left, but make sure there is no fractional
>> line at the bottom. Instead, allow there to be a fractional line of
>> white space at the bottom.
>>
>> 2) Alignment at the bottom left, which means that the top of the
>> terminal window is where there will be a fractional line.
>>
>> I kind of prefer the second behavior for the reasons that the top of the
>> window isn't where the user's eyes are drawn when typing and also a
>> fractional line at the top does give the impression that the text is
>> scrolling upward and there might be additional lines scrolled past the
>> top of the window.
> 
> I think I would also prefer the second option.
> 
> jwe
> 
> 

Maybe the attached patch already would do the trick. The alignment is
still at the top but the number of displayed lines is reduced by 1
leaving a small space under the last line.

Torsten

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