From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it. Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:53:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7c6mhjw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190818134804.GA31509@ACM> <83mug6mtjy.fsf@gnu.org> <20190818161530.GB31509@ACM> <83imqumo7i.fsf@gnu.org> <20190818184356.GC31509@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="140640"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 18 20:54:07 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hzQJb-000aPm-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:54:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42564 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hzQJa-0003gg-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hzQIy-0003gW-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hzQIy-0002Uo-4S; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4463 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hzQIx-00060h-4Q; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:53:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190818184356.GC31509@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:43:56 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239445 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:43:56 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > 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?