From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cursor drawing Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:09:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83woo3bbjw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t0kcmpj.fsf@gnu.org> <831s6cc8zy.fsf@gnu.org> <83zht0at4d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545376063 15080 195.159.176.226 (21 Dec 2018 07:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 08:07:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEuH-0003mQ-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 08:07:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEwO-0005Dr-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:09:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEwG-0005Dl-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEwF-00033D-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEwF-000339-8Z; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1287 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gaEwE-0007NZ-Rn; Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:09:39 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:03:58 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:231940 Archived-At: > From: Elias Mårtenson > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:03:58 +0800 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, 04:00 Stefan Monnier > I don't either. I meant some kind of vector graphics. This might allow > us to offer new features such as drawing arrows going from one buffer > position to another. > > For what it's worth, precisely this is something I have wanted to do for a very long time. I started looking at the > rendering code in Emacs to try to understand how complicated that would be, but I have up pretty quickly. > > I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is a feature that would be very welcome. Please describe "the feature" in some more detail. I might be able to save you some tinkering with the sources, if nothing else. Thanks.