From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Future of display engine and lines Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:19:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2108181.AU8Z245p1N@galex-713.eu> <834k952tti.fsf@gnu.org> <3289249.facs6qH1zK@galex-713.eu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16934"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexandre Garreau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 28 14:21:50 2021 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 1mg4Pk-00045m-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42360 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg4Ph-000347-K5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg4Nh-0000ie-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46444) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg4Ng-0002H8-5o; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:19:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=HNPuAJd2HPFxiwdCqfpmTtym+OuIIZhV9YAIr4rj/rM=; b=hYSNI6ihMcXY fj4gPtyOAoCo1UyibQ8opRSPZqKY10KFpD9V4/t0nCF3oIpe4B11D0ea67raSj5540g3WDOAx1xl5 N+fmbD9UMso6EaQW5ht6iFCrbUS9huhEgLqH8nk5vfdWXC90iFvViFjLTWffU5s35QimAdsTdcYkd 7EHLM58SwUywUARYf24l8D/c+Fow858AoJnfcPxUkYttoXHDTKSTfl1AocZfKEQ0CHKE96JdL6/GI 8kfcgv20lg+Op+e3OqBUuerumsva/hx4fIUJm4v5utxQPvfKNzUAGQh4vpekdve84rFhBwUaXfZKJ Kq09RTF8+rEFI+tOJsq1mQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg4Nd-0000DI-Qr; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:19:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3289249.facs6qH1zK@galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:20:35 +0200) 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:278090 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)