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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better handling of window margins
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:02:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21tb0p3ub.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh9jw9paa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:27:05 -0500")

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> If we want to be able to control the order, we will have to completely
>> redesign how display in the margins works, because currently this is
>> completely determined by the order we traverse the buffer text during
>> redisplay, i.e. the 'margin' display property that is on buffer position
>> displayed more to the left will be displayed before the one to its right.

> Yes, and it's for this problem that I suggest we introduce a new Elisp API
> to manage margin display properties (and make the API be line-based).

Do we really want to make margins more capable like this, or is there a better
way to approach this problem? Margins are just one aspect of a window's
overall display. It would be nice to have control over arbitrary regions
within the total window area. This could serve to better unify fringes and
margins, for example.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-06  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01 21:28 Better handling of window margins Joost Kremers
2015-12-02  8:23 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-02 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-02 17:43   ` martin rudalics
2015-12-02 17:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-02 18:11       ` martin rudalics
2015-12-03  6:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-03 18:16           ` martin rudalics
2015-12-03 20:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-03 20:43               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-04  8:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 13:22                   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-04 14:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 17:30                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-04 18:45                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 20:55                           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-04 21:13                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 21:33                               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-05  7:56                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-05 15:17                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-05 15:49                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-06  4:27                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-06  5:02                                         ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-12-06 16:10                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-06 20:24                                             ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-07  3:32                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07 10:35                                                 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-07 16:39                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07  0:29                                             ` John Wiegley
2015-12-07 16:24                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07 17:35                                                 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-07 17:38                                                   ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-07 17:41                                                     ` John Wiegley
2015-12-07 17:50                                                       ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-07 17:36                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-07 17:39                                                   ` John Wiegley
2015-12-07 18:42                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-07 19:14                                                       ` John Wiegley
2015-12-04  8:07               ` martin rudalics
2015-12-04  9:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 10:21                   ` martin rudalics
2015-12-04 15:34                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 16:56                       ` martin rudalics
2015-12-04 18:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 19:23                           ` martin rudalics
2015-12-02 19:52       ` Joost Kremers
2015-12-03  7:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-02 19:55   ` Joost Kremers
2015-12-03  7:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 12:49 ` John Wiegley

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