Re: [PATCH] Implement functions for measuring fonts and max chars per line

[David Kastrup]

"Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:41:55 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:38:39 -0500
>> > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
>> > Cc: address@hidden
>> > 
>> > This all brings to mind: is there a good way now to determine what
>> > the maximum number of lines in a frame would be in a given font on
>> > the user's display?
>> 
>> You mean window, not frame, right?
>
> No, frame. I'd like to be able to set my default frame height to "full
> height" for the display (filling the display from top to bottom) --
> right now I do guesswork to do this, and my .emacs breaks when I
> switch to a new display.

Uh, maximize vertically?  I do that with my window manager, but Emacs
also offers it as a command line option

‘-fh’
‘--fullheight’
     Specify that the height should be the height of the screen.

and probably with some other ways.

-- 
David Kastrup