From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting column position accounting for overlays
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 19:13:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C4E756.5020607@thregr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vbctsgo6.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05/08/15 21:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That's why I asked to describe your use case. I'm afraid I still
> don't think I understand it.
Sometimes it's just curiosity ;)
>> The usage scenario is pretty simple: assume a terminal display.
>> I want to determine the current /visual/ column at point.
>
> Yes, but why do you need that? What do you intend to do with the
> value?
For example:
https://github.com/wavexx/rigid-tabs.el
Although this is just one case.
If you're trying to display anything related to the /visual/ appearance,
you'll have to consider the possibility of overlays and thus run into
the same issue.
If I'm not mistaken, there were a couple of other packages that handle
this (highlight-indentation?) if you use pretty-symbols or similar
modes, and the way you have to do that is not pretty.
> Indeed, there is not, AFAIK.
>
> But you originally asked only for the dimensions of the text on the
> screen, not about the text itself.
Looks orthogonal to me.
I don't have a need for it right now, but somehow seems logical to have.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-07 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 20:01 Getting column position accounting for overlays Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-05 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-05 9:10 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-05 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-05 18:44 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-05 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 17:13 ` Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2015-08-07 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 14:31 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 15:19 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 16:29 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 17:22 ` Yuri D'Elia
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