From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 47712@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47712: 27.1; Provide `string-display-width` function, which takes properties into account, `substring-width`
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:18:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96bf403a-8158-cfe3-b353-68d5f523fc91@daniel-mendler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835z0r308u.fsf@gnu.org>
On 4/12/21 7:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You can still use your code in org-table, if it does the job, I just
> don't think we should have a semi-working API in core.
This is a reasonable. Extending `string-width` with two optional
begin/end arguments would still be a welcome addition.
> (There's indeed something strange with the results, I think the
> with-current-buffer thing is not enough (because if I manually switch
> to buffer "foo" and run the function, it returns correct results). I
> will take a closer look when I have time, unless martin beats me to
> it.)
Thank you, it would be great if you figure it out. Then the
`window-text-pixel-size` becomes a good alternative to computing the
string width manually from the display and invisible properties as I am
doing as of now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-11 21:16 bug#47712: 27.1; Provide `string-display-width` function, which takes properties into account, `substring-width` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 8:45 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 8:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-12 9:08 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-13 8:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-13 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 12:25 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-14 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 10:49 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-14 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 12:50 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 13:32 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 14:05 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 14:38 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 17:18 ` Daniel Mendler [this message]
2021-04-13 7:06 ` martin rudalics
2021-04-13 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 14:36 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-12 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 17:13 ` Daniel Mendler
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