Re: redisplay system of emacs

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Emacs, which doesn't maintain a separate "layed-out-document" data
>> structure at all
>
> Actually, I think it does: that's the "glyph matrices", which are a
> structured description of what should be drawn.  The display-specific
> back end then actually draws the glyphs according to what the glyph
> matrix tells it.

That is only used for the portion of the document actually being
displayed on the screen at the moment, though, so it's more of a
temporary data structure representing the current screen than a
"layed-out" copy of the entire document like Mozilla uses.

-Miles

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