From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264678350 21180 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 11:32:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 12:32:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaSbl-0005lB-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaSbl-0005EX-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:32:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaSXT-0002dK-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaSXO-0002b4-U4 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54943 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaSXO-0002au-Id for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34853) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaSXO-0003Ax-0J for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaSXN-0000vv-6w; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:27:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:07:57 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120561 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:07:57 +0100 > Cc: "alin.s" , Emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > >> Could it be possible to take off all the redisplay and create a standardized > >> system of redisplay, that everybody can understand quickly? Everybody can > >> write an add-on for Mozilla. I do not know how redisplay of Mozilla works, > >> but as time as new add ons appear every day, that means that the system is > >> very standardized and easy to learn. > > > > Last time I looked, Mozilla wasn't anywhere close to supporting the > > features Emacs has in its display engine. > > > What features? The ones described in the nodes "Display Property" and "Special Properties" in the ELisp manual, for example.