Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] Controlling process window height

Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; forwards: I've looked into this on a couple of occasions. The problem seems to be any function which in turn calls with-output-to-temp-buffer. This function uses a variable called temp-buffer-show-function to display "help" buffers. The default value of this variable is show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame. Assuming temp-buffer-shrink-to-fit is true, show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame will use a variable called temp-buffer-max-height to adjust the height of the temp buffer. temp-buffer-max-height is the percentage of the frame to use for the temp windows. The problem is that show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame will never shrink a temp buffer. Here's the code that adjust the window height: (when (< size temp-window-size) (enlarge-window (- temp-window-size size) nil window))) where size is the actual temp window height and temp-window-size is the maximum number of lines for a temp buffer in this frame. It seems like you should just be able to set this to (unless (equal size temp-window-size) (enlarge-window (- temp-window-size size) nil window))) However that doesn't seem to work. When I use (unless (equal size temp-window-size) (message "enlarging window from %d by %d" size (- temp-window-size size)) (enlarge-window (- temp-window-size size) nil window))) I get a message like "enlarging window from 27 by -19"; however, the resulting window is not 8 lines high. It ends up 11 lines high. However, if I take a window that is 37 lines high and do 'C-u - 2 9 C-x ^' (the interactive version of (enlarge-window -29)), I end up with a window that is 8 lines high. So, interactively enlarge-window seems to work fine but programatically it doesn't. :-/ -- (__) Doug Alcorn - Unix/Linux/Web Developing oo / PGP 02B3 1E26 BCF2 9AAF 93F1 61D7 450C B264 3E63 D543 |_/ mailto:doug＠lathi.net http://www.lathi.net