From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048).
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:43:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837hchxt17.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6DFB3D.1040306@gmx.at>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:09:33 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Would it help to have a primitive that returns the width in pixels
> > that a given buffer substring would take on the screen?
>
> Not really.
Why not? Especially since you go one explaining why it _would_ be
helpful ;-)
> But in general, a primitive that returned the displayed pixel
> height/width of a substring of any buffer line for some given window
> would be great.
What's a window got to do with this? How can a window affect display
of a buffer substring?
> Actually, it would be nice if redisplay could cache these values on
> demand for each line it (virtually) displayed.
What for?
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2011-02-28 4:15 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048) Juanma Barranquero
2011-02-28 9:28 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 12:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-02-28 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-28 17:10 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 18:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-28 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-28 19:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-28 20:53 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-03-01 3:40 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-03-02 19:56 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-04 17:49 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-05 12:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-02 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01 21:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 9:47 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-01 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-01 17:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-01 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01 21:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 22:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 0:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-05 12:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-06 5:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-06 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-06 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 10:16 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-07 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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