Re: Cursor on images not visible

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     This also affects all packages outside Emacs, so maybe a better
>>     solution is to try to change code that draws a frame around
>>     images under the cursor to draw it as if the image had a
>>     1-pixel margin?
>>
>> It sounds good to me, if it looks good in practice.  Would this
>> ever look bad due to overlapping adjoining images?  Maybe that
>> could happen with image slices.
>
> I think it would be very bad to always add a margin to images.

Agreed.

> If we ever want to make a full web browser in emacs, we definitely
> need to be able to "glue" images together without any margins around
> them.  (I have some ideas how to modify the redisplay engine to
> allow this, but that for emacs 24.x)...

It would also be necessary for sliced large graphics (the slicing
serves for being able to place the cursor on subelements of the
graphics).  There will probably be table support in that manner for
preview-latex at one point of time.

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