From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it.
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:23:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190818192310.GD31509@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7c6mhjw.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello again, Eli.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 21:53:23 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:43:56 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > I don't think there's anything else in Emacs at the moment that could
> > take its place. The essence here is being able to insert "=>" onto the
> > display _without_ disturbing the horizontal alignment
> Sorry, I'm confused now: how can you insert the arrow without either
> moving the rest of the line to the right or overwriting its first few
> glyphs? Where does the space for the arrow come from?
Sorry for being a bit inexact. In that bit I meant inserting "=>" by
overwriting the two characters in columns 0 and 1. We need to be able
to do this.
At the moment, I don't think Emacs can do this without using the
(current) overlay arrow facility.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-18 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-18 13:48 [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 16:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 18:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 19:23 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2019-08-19 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-19 19:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-20 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 19:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-18 19:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-19 9:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-19 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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