From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comments on display.texi Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:53:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096296920 30806 80.91.229.6 (27 Sep 2004 14:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 16:55:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CBwuI-0006in-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:55:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBx0W-0002ZA-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBwzR-0001xe-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBwzP-0001wD-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBwzP-0001vK-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CBwsq-0001a4-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CBwsq-0000A7-6U; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:53:44 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27620 But even faces have a limit of 21^2-1, so emacs is not without arbitrary limits. So there must be some limit -- which ? 2^32-1 ? A limit of 2^21 would be ok, if it is painful to overcome.