From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 02:22:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87o8qsk4rg.fsf@gnus.jao.io> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="40773"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cqDTczKsOnkUXdP7snciAhiQw5o= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 04:08:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYgp4-000AUr-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 04:08:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48084 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYgp3-0002gP-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 22:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYgob-0002Hd-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 22:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:46290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYgob-00071y-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 22:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYgoY-000A1Q-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 04:08:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/12 22:08:07 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250065 Archived-At: On Tue, May 12 2020, Helmut Eller wrote: [...] > 1. Improving display of long lines. Emacs gets very unresponsive when a > buffer contains long lines. This is something I run into rather > frequently and it's very irritating. Apparently this is a difficult > problem to fix because to the display code needs to "measure" how long > the line is in pixels and there is no other way to that than to iterate > over each character in a line. But it may be possible reduce the number > of how often this measuring needs to done. It seems to me that > web-browsers also need a long time to display long lines, but once the > line is drawn, scrolling works as quick as for short lines. > > 2. Being able to display HTML/CSS/SVG the way mainstream web-browsers > display would be nice. But probably too big a project. And in the long > run, probably a reason for Emacs to go extinct. Just wanted to say, as someone who uses Emacs for literally everthing except visiting a few web pages, that these two projects are exactly the ones i'd need more. In case someone's counting :) Cheers, jao, who wishes he had time to hack on this. -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley