Re: "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line."

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:40:25PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Another point I'd appreciate clarification on.  Some while back, for
> example, your mail of Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:26:08 +0300, we were talking
> about the order of screen positions varying non-linearly with buffer
> positions.  Is it true that if a continuation line begins at buffer
> position A, then for x < A, buffer position x will be displayed on a
> previous line?  (And also for x > A, x will be displayed on this line or
> a subsequent one?)

I've just found out the answer for myself.  These relationships, however
desirable they might be, do not hold.  So software which needs to
determine which (display) line a character is on needs to use the
move_it_.... routines, somehow.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).