From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs canvas support Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:35:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83368lxfiu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zdikdge.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <875zdikdge.fsf@yahoo.com> <834kt21yyo.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhau1uog.fsf@yahoo.com> <83sggmzjp8.fsf@gnu.org> <87mu6u1tii.fsf@yahoo.com> <83o8raziis.fsf@gnu.org> <877dxy1smz.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rae0ao.fsf@randomsample> <83k11yxlrh.fsf@gnu.org> <878siedp7p.fsf@randomsample> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="25814"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 15:42:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jU9S2-0006ZQ-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:42:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49662 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jU9S1-0007CM-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jU9Lz-0000CF-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jU9Lz-0007rp-1F; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4556 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jU9Ly-0000sn-Bp; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:35:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878siedp7p.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:14:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248233 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:14:18 +0200 > > Let's take another very simple example: I often wished it would be > possible to tell Emacs "Put an image at pixel position (x,y)" without > having to anchor it to some point position. For instance, I have a block > of text and would like to have an image next to it. Last I checked, the > only way to do this is to create a "sliced image" which automatically > gets cut up into rows and columns, but this is a very brittle workaround > (it doesn't work with an increased line-spacing, for instance). Under the current design of the display engine, I believe anything displayed inside a window must come from some buffer text position or from a string.