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bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?) |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:00:39 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:46:34 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: 19661@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Sorry for being dense, this being just the first weekday for me, but
> > what "windows code" does that, please?
>
> The one that calculates the text size of windows.
OK, but I fail to see how this, or anything similar, can provide the
features being discussed.
> > In any case, telling the display engine where to start the display is
> > a far cry from telling it how to lay out the screen from that point
> > onwards.
>
> My point was to _not_ change the code of the display engine.
Why not?
> > Providing an API is not equivalent to implementing it. In order for
> > us to be able to provide such an API, the display engine should
> > implement the support such an API will need. And that's the hard part
> > of the job -- how to perform this layout. Once we figure that out,
> > providing an API for controlling it will be easy.
>
> It essentially would have to subdivide a window into rectangles. And I
> would do that on the window(s) level to avoid the hard part of the job.
Well, like I said, I consider such (ab)using of windows a kludge.
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), (continued)
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/23
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), martin rudalics, 2015/01/23
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/23
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), martin rudalics, 2015/01/24
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/24
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), martin rudalics, 2015/01/25
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/25
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), martin rudalics, 2015/01/25
- bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?),
Eli Zaretskii <=
bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?), Ivan Shmakov, 2015/01/23