From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "alin.s" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27357399.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264691127 6616 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 15:05:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 16:05:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaVvn-0000jS-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:05:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaVvn-0006fH-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaVvg-0006es-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaVvb-0006dA-OT for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60129 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaVvb-0006d6-Jf for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:50035) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaVva-00038L-HF for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaVvY-0002m1-98 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:00 -0500 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NaVvV-0005BJ-G4 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Nabble-From: alinsoar@voila.fr X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120586 Archived-At: OK, Let us keep as good Emacs' method. But let us clarify somehow in the least details ! Miles Bader-2 wrote: > > Lennart Borgman writes: >> ?? Of course Mozilla supports these kind of things too. > > Note that mozilla's display engine makes some dramatically different > assumptions about what is important for the display engine to do. > > Most importantly, it does the layout and display calculation for the > _entire page_ at once. Emacs, by contrast does it on the fly for the > small amount being displayed at the moment. > > Mozilla's method allows some nice things -- for instance it makes much > more complicated layout tractable -- but it really really sucks for huge > files, and in general probably isn't such a good idea if the document > tends to change a lot in real time. Emacs' method, by contrast works > really well for those cases. > > I think this difference in approach makes sense given the different > goals of the two applications, and it's not at all clear that Mozilla's > display engine would work well for Emacs too. > > Of course, you could try it and see.... :| > > -miles > > -- > Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked > when > things go wrong in the domestic circle. > > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/redisplay-system-of-emacs-tp27349166p27357399.html Sent from the Emacs - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.