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Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:37:51 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:20:30 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
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> The problem I was alluding to is that the efficient way for the
> redisplay to provide relative visual-line numbers (i.e. working
> directly on the matrices) would provide a semantics which I'm not sure
> matches faithfully the functions available to Elisp
> (e.g. vertical-motion).
Right. One other problem with using the glyph matrices is that it's
not easy to glean from them what object with what properties each
glyph came from, especially when the glyphs came from an overlay.