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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Efficiently using MOVE_IT_... to gather a plethora of information.
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:46:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <599D40CF.1080505@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvziar3pom.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>

 > BTW, regarding that vertical-line feature: wouldn't it make sense to
 > implement it not by sprinkling various little chunks of vertical bars in
 > the glyph matrices (with the difficulty of making sure they are
 > correctly connected, with the right color and what not), but by drawing
 > it on top of the text?
 >
 > Having a "second layer" that can used to draw on top of the text would
 > also be useful, e.g. to draw little arrows connecting various parts of
 > the text.

We could try using "always on top" child frames.  Anything else would
probably clase with redisplay optimizations

martin



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-23  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22 20:17 Efficiently using MOVE_IT_... to gather a plethora of information Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-23  3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23  8:46   ` martin rudalics [this message]
2017-08-23  8:49     ` martin rudalics
2017-08-23 20:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 17:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-23 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-22 18:26 Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-22 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii

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