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Re: HTML-Info design


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: HTML-Info design
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:27:32 +1100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Specified window is not displaying the 
>> current buffer")
>
> Yes, you need to arrange for the buffer to be current and displayed in
> the window you pass to the function.  See the function's doc string.
>
>> shr uses temporary buffers to format various bits, so this doesn't seem
>> to be a practical approach when determining the pixel widths of text.
>
> You can invoke font-at on a string instead of buffer.

Thanks.  Does that make sense, though?  I'm guessing that using
`font-at' on a string, it implicitly uses the current window for
something.  `font-at' on a buffer could use the same logic, couldn't it?

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