Re: EWW Feature Request: Mark start and end of table cells?

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
See my present "poor man's solution" for browsing tables by cells:
https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/blob/master/lisp/emacspeak-eww.el#L2375

I'm hanging the table-dom as a text property on the rendered table, and
the performance hit is not perceivable --- at least to me --- though it
might well be causing some kind of visual flicker by slowing the display 

> "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>> I'd like a way to be able to easily speak table cell contents and move
>> across table cells --up, left, right and down.
>
> It'd be a nice feature in general -- I mean, getting the contents of a
> table cell in shr, so that you can `C-w' the contents, for instance.
>
> But it's difficult in general because of the way the tables are
> rendered.  I guess one could put some text property on all the
> characters in a cell to allow some command to put the text back together
> again (say, `table-id #42351' or something), but I don't know what the
> performance impact would be (and shr is plenty slow as it is).

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Thanks,

--Raman
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