From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048).
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:03:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhbblzcag.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vd02y8qq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:51:41 +0200")
> Would it help to have a primitive that returns the width in pixels
> that a given buffer substring would take on the screen?
Not if we want it to work without knowing the window (and hence
terminal) on which the buffer is going to be displayed (i.e. the
computation should be done by the redisplay, the buffer data needs to be
agnostic to the font used).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 17:03 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-28 4:15 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048) Juanma Barranquero
2011-02-28 9:28 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 12:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-02-28 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-28 17:10 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 18:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-28 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-28 19:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-28 20:53 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-03-01 3:40 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 19:56 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-04 17:49 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-05 12:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-02 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01 21:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 9:47 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-01 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-01 17:43 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-01 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01 21:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-01 22:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 0:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-02 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2011-02-28 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-05 12:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-06 5:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-06 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-06 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 10:16 ` martin rudalics
2011-03-07 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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