From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SVG hack for display engine Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:56:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83y25o1cox.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8335nxtwo7.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfvxsejm.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0h8wzgq.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25038"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, atamariya@gmail.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 13:57:57 2021 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 1mmy24-0006AF-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:57:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58560 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmy22-0001ST-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmy0s-0000Vd-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=43974 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmy0s-0004oP-7S; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:56:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=FZ9i7rGz8VhDDYVtLHJx33BXayKpcBOE63Btqx/5HBQ=; b=kQInkHRIafjj 4SVf1//FDpd9baD4GwHOux0EiFFqTAScDWSLE36G4NR9/EuFyTwQ/mxGKdGwKJWdKx54/dibnq2nY Hq4SVVfDXEtNlGkvv0gxkm8nb2hsdiLcm1UIp9bhJDNHWONHPp/9/PlSEbypviLGjgP/RpigWtjeT Jb32DYfsuhTguoJCkWAZi8YGyGRwfhLOD65Xo3W3/7MWSBNywgRJ/eoTF/aqyFmdPuCykgfg6FZ3R Zm0lThcDYCWaBsOGlLOkguCTMUV1FAxa4FgH4V/BPEC5j+4QMKdPDLGsd4Kfvz4H+TY0i4rVq91+X OcKkd0tZT0XRR2JmIyPI3g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3312 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmy0r-0007UD-Rk; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:56:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k0h8wzgq.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:28:53 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:279548 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs Devel > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:28:53 +0800 > > Anand Tamariya writes: > > > Do you notice the popup in the top window in the image attached in OP? > > It has clean lines over buffer content with mixed (fixed + variable > > pitch) fonts. Is it possible to have that in graphical Emacs? Precise > > positioning of popups can open up graphical Emacs to immense > > possibilities like feature filled tooltips, inline completion popup, > > Don't we have child frames which do exactly that? > > Also, on X-Windows, tooltips are implemented as a special kind of Emacs > frame. The MS-Windows implementation of tooltips also uses special-purpose frames.