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Re: Line height issues with display-line-number-mode


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Line height issues with display-line-number-mode
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 14:45:44 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>> "This particular case" being what, in technical terms?  A line that
>>>> begins with an overlay string?  A line whose entire contents comes
>>>> from an overlay string?  Something else?
>>> I'm not sure; I think 'a line whose entire contents come from an overlay
>>> string' is probably right.
>> That's harder than "starts with an overlay string", but still doable,
>> I think.  However, I wonder whether it will cover enough use cases.
> I wonder too.

I can also imagine cases where the line whose entire contents come from
an overlay string should be the one that gets the line-number (maybe
the two cases can be distinguished by checking where the `cursor`
property wants the display to put the cursor when point is at BOL?).


        Stefan




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