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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: esabof@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Render a buffer or string to a simpler string?
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 03:36:47 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj19b9f4.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74e4efaf-34a9-46fd-a590-bcd8b774be05@googlegroups.com> (esabof@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 26 May 2013 10:08:43 -0700 (PDT)")

esabof@gmail.com writes:

> It shouldn't be very hard to create such a function in elisp - the subset of display properties you need is probably not very large.

Doing that independent of rendering engine wouldn't be very durable, the
tests using the result wouldn't be protected against display engine bugs
and changes in behavior. And there are fine details like `line-prefix'
values priorities (what if we have several such properties on one line?)
that I think only expressed at C level.

> Also, how hard it would be to put a single transparent image on top of a frame? This would allow more robust pop-ups, as well as other UI elements by using SVG.

There was a discussion a little while ago about generalizing
`x-show-tip' so it could be used to render popups of this kind. It's a
nice idea, although it would benefit only the users of future Emacs
releases.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-26 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25 19:36 Render a buffer or string to a simpler string? Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-25 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-25 21:46   ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-26  2:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-26  3:38       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-26 15:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-26 15:40           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-26 16:15             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-26 23:20               ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]             ` <mailman.418.1369584930.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-26 17:08               ` esabof
2013-05-26 23:36                 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-05-26 17:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-26 23:28         ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]       ` <mailman.419.1369588606.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-26 17:56         ` esabof
2013-05-27  2:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-27  2:48           ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]           ` <mailman.445.1369622831.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-27 11:59             ` esabof
     [not found]           ` <mailman.446.1369622948.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-27 12:14             ` esabof
     [not found] <mailman.381.1369510626.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-25 20:45 ` Barry Margolin

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