From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The display margin Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:01:05 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16080.60869.212521.952911@nick.uklinux.net> <200305251636.h4PGa1ll021935@rum.cs.yale.edu> <16082.42589.935105.932019@nick.uklinux.net> <16321.14941.117864.117597@nick.uklinux.net> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070039146 3344 80.91.224.253 (28 Nov 2003 17:05:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 18:05:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APm3r-0007yh-00 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:05:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APm3q-0008De-00 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:05:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APmzI-0005JW-7r for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:05:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APmy3-000594-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APmxU-0004yX-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.245.84.69] (helo=colo.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1APmwv-0004Zz-7T; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by colo.agora-net.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1APlzN-0000Ib-00; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:01:05 -0500 Original-To: dak@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 28 Nov 2003 17:02:31 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18193 From: David Kastrup Date: 28 Nov 2003 17:02:31 +0100 Well, it was just an idea. it's the right idea. whether nor my brain will grow enough to be able to accomodate and realize it into code is another question... > w/ images it's easy of course. Is it? What if the image type is PostScript or some other scalable format, and the buffer is displayed on two frames on two different displays with different resolutions? Ok, I guess the answer is "this will break Emacs", anyway. oops, didn't think of those cases. yes, anything that scales, be it text or image, presents a challenge for coordinating info between the data and its presentation. cyclic dependencies means someone has to cut something somewhere... Questions like that need the concerned window to be answerable, I guess. minimally, which view being asked must be known. thi