Re: [ELPA] New package proposal: visual-path-abbrev.el

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> The GNU Coding Style conventions frown on using "path" for anything
> but PATH-style directory lists.  I think you mean "file names" here.

Fine with me.

>> - Sometimes when scrolling fast and then stopping, only parts of the
>>   visible buffer portion got the overlays applied.  You can try
>>   triggering that problem by enabling the mode in a *grep* buffer and
>>   then scrolling a long way.
>
> Your code seems to update the overlays in a function called from
> post-command-hook, but post-command-hook runs before redisplay updates
> the window due to last command.  So you are using stale window-start
> and window-end values, and if the last command scrolls some file names
> into the view, those file names might not have overlays on them.
>
> I think the preferred method is to use jit-lock-register to register
> your function; see e.g. glasses.el for how this can be done.

Yes, that looks good.  I'll try that out.

>> - When lines are wrapped around and line-move-visual is t, the mode can
>>   make the line short enough so that it doesn't wrap anymore.  But
>>   still next-line moves point to where it would belong if the mode were
>>   not active, i.e., point jumps to somewhere on the same line.
>
> That sounds like a bug, so a minimal recipe to reproduce this (in a
> bug report, please ;-) would be appreciated.

Ok, I'll do that.

Bye,
Tassilo