From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ghe@sdf.org, 43572@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:56:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1ril3kth.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838scum30r.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:42:12 +0300")
>> The overlay I proposed carries fundamentally 2 pieces of info: the
>> beginning position and the end position of the "scroll focus".
> We could still put this on the first character,
Indeed, that's an option, but it doesn't seem particularly handy.
Not necessarily worse than a window-property or a buffer-local value,
admittedly.
> and have the value of the property be a cons cell with these two
> positions, no?
An overlay is a handy abstraction for "pair of two positions in the same
buffer", with extra niceties such as the `evaporate` property.
Stefan
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2020-09-22 20:57 bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 19:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 20:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:41 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 21:51 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 8:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 10:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 11:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-09-23 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-09-24 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-09-28 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-10-02 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-04-29 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2020-09-24 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-09-28 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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