From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overlay behavior change
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 19:25:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a70aq8hn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2007081710210394.7785@sdf.lonestar.org> (emacs-devel@gnu.org)
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 17:12:23 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> What I would have liked to see is something that is neither the previous
> nor the current default behavior. This idea will probably not be
> considered (let's name it the attribute ":visualblock t"), but here it is:
>
> 1. calculate the overlay as it would have been displayed by Emacs 21 to
> 26.
>
> 2. remove all pixel columns on the right *and on the left* of the overlay
> which have no "content" (that is, no characters on the right, whitespace
> characters on the left).
>
> This way the block (of code) would really be displayed on the screen as a
> block, even a deeply nested one. The above "algorithm" would work with
> fixed and variable-width fonts, but could of course be made more efficient
> for fixed-width fonts.
Feel free to submit a feature-request bug report about this.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 8:14 Overlay behavior change Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-08 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08 9:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-08 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08 15:12 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-08 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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