From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes. Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:47:47 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <01c49dfb$Blat.v2.2.2$930d6fe0@zahav.net.il> References: <200409042358.i84Nwjt19152@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llfn5ihw.fsf@emacswiki.org> <01c49c75$Blat.v2.2.2$7a37cb00@zahav.net.il> <01c49d70$Blat.v2.2.2$f7cfb860@zahav.net.il> <01c49da7$Blat.v2.2.2$cd5f7160@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095565832 2962 80.91.229.6 (19 Sep 2004 03:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 03:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: boris@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org, alkibiades@gmx.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 05:50:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C8siO-0004eK-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 05:50:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8soC-0004e9-93 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8so5-0004e2-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8so4-0004dq-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8so4-0004dn-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C8si6-0001Vf-7U; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-204-211.inter.net.il [80.230.204.211]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CPG79244 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:49:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27264 > Cc: Oliver Scholz , boris@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:11:42 +0200 > > With the current emacs display engine, there is no way > to display something simple like > > AAAbbbbbbb > AAAccccccc Yes, I know about the limtations of the display engine, but those limitations will need to be lifted anyhow, for Emacs to be able to display examples that Oliver talked about. What I asked was about the idea of rearranging the text in the buffer as dictated by the style information in the file, not about current limitations of the display engine. I suggested to discuss specific problems in using that idea to implement word-processing features. Obviously, display of arbitrary mixtures of variable-size characters doesn't belong to the class of problems that this idea could solve.