From: Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: There should be an option to set the display size of an image to zero
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:43:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF59D02-8774-4607-8ECA-0A3C0F41BAC0@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9jbpmvy.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2013-09-17, at 10:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:50:45 -0400
>> Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Let me explain the context so that you better understand my specific needs. I want to use emacs as a programming tool to display the result of some program analyses of the code currently in the buffer. Specifically I want to display arrows that indicate how data flows in the program. For example, what are all the places in the code where the value resulting from a given constructor are referenced, or inversely, what are all the calls to constructors whose resulting value can flow to a particular point in the code.
>
> I vaguely understand, but it is still not clear enough how you would
> achieve those goals with "arrows". Where will the arrows originate,
> and where will they point? Perhaps you could show a screenshot?
Here's a screenshot showing the type of annotation I'm trying to implement:
http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/mflatt/scribble-paper.plt/2/1/planet-docs/scribble/collatz.png
The screenshot is from the racket Scheme implementation which supports arrow annotations.
>> My plan is to display arrows indicating these relationships and to overlay them on top of the program source code. It would be ideal if it was possible to place an image on top of the text that scrolls with the text. The arrows would only appear if the cursor (or mouse) is placed on top of a constructor or accessor, so it must be efficient to change the image dynamically. An SVG image would be ideal because the image can easily be constructed and takes little space.
>
> Did you consider using display margins? Emacs can show display
> strings and images in the display margins, to the left or right of the
> text. These display strings and images are "pinned" to specific
> buffer positions, so they scroll with the text.
But can the image in a margin overflow the margin to overlay the main text? I assume not.
Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 2:37 There should be an option to set the display size of an image to zero Marc Feeley
2013-09-17 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-17 7:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-17 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-17 12:50 ` Marc Feeley
2013-09-17 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-17 14:43 ` Marc Feeley [this message]
2013-09-17 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-17 16:15 ` Marc Feeley
2013-09-17 16:56 ` chad
2013-09-17 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-18 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18 15:18 ` Jan Djärv
2013-09-18 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-18 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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