Re: [emacs-bidi] understanding Emacs' display engine

[Gerd Moellmann]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> This is a supplemental note to Eli's mail.
> 
> >From the experience of my previous patch for basic bidi
> support, I think you should at first understand the function
> display_line (in xdisp.c) and these important functions
> called from it:
>       get_next_display_element,
>       set_iterator_to_next
>       PRODUCE_GLYPHS

Yes, that's the lower level, so to say.  After that, it's interesting
to study the display optimizations.  I think it's informative to
read redisplay_window and try_window_id, at least.