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 10:45:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b959e9ba-cf67-2bba-9bf7-8763fc62169f@daniel-mendler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1jg2q72.fsf@gnu.org>
On 4/12/21 4:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We already have window-text-pixel-size; doesn't it fit the bill? If
> not, why not?
`window-text-pixel-size` computes the size of a portion of the window,
it does not take a string argument. The function `string-width` instead
takes a string argument returning the number of columns needed to
display this string. This function is needed to compute widths of
strings which are not yet displayed.
`string-display-width` is a proposed function which takes properties
into account as `window-text-pixel-size` does, but without going through
the display system first. Instead it computes the `string-width` of a
flattened string, where the invisible parts have been removed and the
displayed parts have been replaced.
Orgmode uses its incarnation of `string-display-width`,
`org-string-width`, for formatting its tables (see org-table.el). The
width computation is performed before displaying the strings in the window.
`substring-width` is a proposed generalization of `string-width` which
allows computation of the width of a substring, without requiring the
allocation of a substring. `string-display-width` or
`substring-display-width` can be implemented based on `string-width` or
`substring-width`, with`substring-width` being advantageous since it
does not require the substring allocation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 8:45 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 [this message]
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
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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