Re: Process: Determining the origin of a command loop.

[Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>]

Thank you, Eli, for the helpful guidance -- greatly appreciated!

Keith

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> Date: [12-20-2018 06:11:20] <20 Dec 2018 16:11:20 +0200>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> I understand, but I think you will have to come up with your own
> mechanism to check when the
> crosshairs/visible-fill-column/multiple-fake-cursors need to be
> updated, because I don't think that can be established from the
> physical cursor's position or the need to redraw it.  Since those fake
> cursors can be anywhere in the window, and the conditions for updating
> them are independent of the conditions for moving point, the logic for
> that must be independently designed and implemented, using the data
> you maintain for drawing those fake cursors.  If you already track
> that data, then all you need is determine whether any of it changed
> since the last time.