From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about display engine
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:30:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftm98dgu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de83555f-4d29-ec12-8166-b1db0abe96c1@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:59:33 +0200)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:59:33 +0200
>
> > You are right, I ignored those use cases, but I still don't think that
> > the faces are the right place to flag that. The line extension maybe
> > needs to be decided based on another text property. Maybe there are
> > already some conditions we can check dynamically. Because adding a flag
> > is a bit error prone when there are already some conditions.
> >
> > There is also the case when the face to use comes from FACE_FOR_CHAR or
> > another is merged over that. Or when there is a highlight inside the
> > region at the end of the line text... That, in the display engine, I am
> > not clear yet how are handled.
>
> OTOH, the display engine could simply delegate some design decisions
> to the face specification apparatus and attribute any faults to the
> latter.
I don't think this is workable, because of face merging. The actual
face used to display the last character on a screen line can (and
frequently does) come from merging several faces, and there's no
meaningful answer to the question: which face did this attribute come
from? For a face merged from 2 or more faces defined via defface, how
do you tell whether or not to extend it? Thus, such delegation can
only yield inconsistent behavior and more bug reports.
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2019-08-07 0:54 Question about display engine Ergus
2019-08-07 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 15:32 ` Ergus
2019-08-07 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 15:57 ` Ergus
2019-08-07 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 16:25 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-07 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-08 7:25 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-08 8:38 ` Ergus
2019-08-08 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-08 9:29 ` Ergus
2019-08-08 13:05 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-08 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-08 16:43 ` Ergus
2019-08-08 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-08 22:37 ` Ergus
2019-08-09 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-09 9:08 ` Ergus
2019-08-09 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-09 11:31 ` Ergus
2019-08-09 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-09 15:09 ` Ergus
2019-08-09 8:59 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-09 9:31 ` Ergus
2019-08-09 9:38 ` Ergus
2019-08-10 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-11 8:14 ` martin rudalics
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2019-08-10 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-11 8:14 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-11 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-08-12 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-12 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-13 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-13 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-13 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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2019-08-13 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-08-27 22:20 ` Ergus
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2019-09-01 12:26 ` Ergus
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2019-09-02 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-03 5:33 ` Ergus
2019-09-03 8:45 ` martin rudalics
2019-09-03 11:23 ` Ergus
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2019-09-03 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-03 5:35 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
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2019-09-03 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-09-05 11:18 ` Ergus
2019-08-21 7:37 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-08 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-09 12:46 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-10 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-10 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-11 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-11 8:17 ` martin rudalics
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2019-08-08 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-08 8:15 ` Ergus
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2019-08-08 20:37 ` Juri Linkov
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2019-09-08 0:51 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
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2019-09-09 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-09-15 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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2019-09-15 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-15 21:42 ` Ergus
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2019-09-17 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-21 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-21 13:57 ` Ergus
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2019-09-26 16:32 ` Ergus
2019-09-28 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 10:30 ` Ergus
2019-09-29 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-07 15:40 ` Ergus
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2019-10-12 18:16 ` Ergus
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2019-09-06 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06 10:30 ` Ergus
2019-09-06 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06 16:34 ` Ergus
2019-09-06 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-10-13 18:11 ` Ergus
2019-10-13 18:25 ` Ergus
2019-10-13 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 19:38 ` Ergus
2019-10-13 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-13 22:27 ` Ergus
2019-10-14 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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