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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next prev 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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