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Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048).
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:09:33 +0100
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)

> Would it help to have a primitive that returns the width in pixels
> that a given buffer substring would take on the screen?

Not really.  But in general, a primitive that returned the displayed
pixel height/width of a substring of any buffer line for some given
window would be great.  Actually, it would be nice if redisplay could
cache these values on demand for each line it (virtually) displayed.

martin




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