Re: Terminal view alignment at bottom might be better

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 06/22/2013 08:09 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Maybe a 3rd?
>
> 3) Snap the command window height to an integer number of lines?
>
> Don't most (all?) terminal windows work that way?
>
> Ben

I suppose that is possible.  I don't think we could snap the outer 
limits of the terminal window because that is embedded in the dock 
aligned with other windows.  The inner limits perhaps.

Dan