From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pixel-based display functions Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:36:20 +0200 Message-ID: <837fw3l7uz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fw9dndz.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83a914ozsh.fsf@gnu.org> <874mrb1t62.fsf_-_@building.gnus.org> <87vbjrl49k.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <8361bqogah.fsf@gnu.org> <87k306pfi9.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87egqekrd7.fsf@building.gnus.org> <877fw53eat.fsf@building.gnus.org> <877fw4zsdv.fsf@building.gnus.org> <831tmcn4k4.fsf@gnu.org> <87386szq1w.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83wq44ljm9.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbjowlqv.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83oapglbx6.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhkkl23i.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnlgkl1s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422689802 4751 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2015 07:36:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 08:36:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YHSbh-0006XI-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:36:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHSbg-0007wp-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHSbR-0007wE-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:36:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHSbO-0005gf-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:36:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:47987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHSbN-0005gM-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:36:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJ10090066EZ000@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:32:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJ1007Y46AK9V20@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:32:44 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182114 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 01:25:30 -0500 > > > No, we aren't. This is about something the display code cannot do > > right now. > > But all those computations of pixel sizes are really what the > redisplay does. Lars doesn't want to compute pixel sizes to repeat what the display engine does. He wants to do that to implement stuff that the display engine cannot, at least currently (if it ever should).