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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Future of display engine and lines
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:19:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mg4Nd-0000DI-Qr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3289249.facs6qH1zK@galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:20:35 +0200)

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  > In the way you imagine it, that is directly unpractical for reading, but 
  > practical for the one usage that I re-suggested initially: enabling a 
  > WYSIWYG text processor inside emacs.  You may want to visualize pages 
  > bigger than what fits on your screen, because it will be rendered on other, 
  > bigger screen, or unzoomed, or printed.

Indeed, that's exactly the case I had in mind.  It's possible in Emacs
to edit a page of single-column text (delimited by ^L characters, of
course) that is too tall to fit on the screen.  When Emacs displays
multicolumn text, that too should allow scrolling through pages that
are too tall.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-20 13:27 Future of display engine and lines Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-21  3:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-22 23:47   ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-23  7:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 12:38       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 13:17         ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-25  2:18       ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-25 12:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 12:20           ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-25 12:50             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 13:01               ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-28 12:19             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-10-28 12:19           ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-28 13:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-28 15:03             ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-11-09 23:13               ` chad
2021-11-10 19:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-13  4:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-23 10:32   ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-21 22:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-22 11:56   ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-22 12:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 13:55     ` Ihor Radchenko

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