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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  malsburg@posteo.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 91418d27e9: Add new functions for computing character metrics for windows
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:47:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1qxedz23.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tuaa7dd4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:19:35 +0300")

>> (e.g. because of hi-lock, goto-address-mode, you name it).
>> So you're saying that in practice most uses are "a mistake".
>
> That's not the use case this function supports.  It supports the use
> case where some Lisp program produces text under its control, and
> wants to know how much of the text can be put on a single screen line.

hi-lock and goto-address-mode are minor modes; they can apply just as
well to that "produced text under its control".

> The way it's exposed reflects the needs of the use cases it serves.

Oh well,


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-30 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <165123811050.20687.5215165731843845332@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220429131511.9BD62C01683@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-04-29 13:46   ` master 91418d27e9: Add new functions for computing character metrics for windows Stefan Monnier
2022-04-29 13:53     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 14:55       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-29 19:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 20:40           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-30  5:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 11:12             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 13:33               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-30 13:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 14:34                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-30 15:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 15:52                       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-30 16:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 21:47                           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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