From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading the C source of Emacs Date: 12 Jan 2003 23:16:07 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <847kdbml8f.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84iswuta5h.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042410034 21242 80.91.224.249 (12 Jan 2003 22:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XqT2-0005WT-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:20:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XqTJ-0001QM-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:20:49 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1042409767 00 22663 D8J-EXiVESaoZF 030112 22:16:07 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108880 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5409 Oliver Scholz writes: > kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > > Oliver Scholz writes: > > > >> Hmm, I haven't thought of that. But it could be an idea. Many of my > >> wishes are far above my head at the moment, but maybe I could find or > >> invent something which is sufficently limited to play a bit with it > >> and to get a feeling for it. Thanks you. > > > > I don't understand that "above your head" part. Previously, you > > wanted to grok all of the C code. Now you say grokking only a small > > bit to implement something is too difficult. > > Actually I mainly wanted to unterstand the display/redisplay part, > which is not such a small bit. Nobody understands that, not even Gerd, and he wrote it. Go for it: I have a feeling that the areas you might be interested in could be those that I want to see improvement. I can give you a lot of suggestions for image support (which is abysmally slow, actually), but I am afraid that they would require an understanding of what is efficient and inefficient... and that is probably not some basic knowledge easily come by. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum