Re: Pixel-based display functions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:46:51 +1100
> 
> > I explicitly mentioned vertical-motion in one of my previous messages,
> > and explained there how to use it to find buffer position that
> > corresponds to a given pixel coordinate.  Lars said it wasn't what he
> > needed, I don't know why.
> 
> I think I asked whether it was another one of those functions that only
> report the position after redisplay has taken place, and if so, it's not
> usable for this use case.
> 
> If it does report the position before redisplay has happened

It does.

In general, very few functions require an up-to-date display for doing
their job; those that do have that fact stated in their doc strings.

I hope you noticed my comments about the visual vs logical order:
vertical-motion is one of the functions that work in visual order.