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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Pixel-based display functions |
| Date: | Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:33:11 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Lars doesn't want to compute pixel sizes to repeat what the display
> engine does. He wants to do that to implement stuff that the display
> engine cannot, at least currently (if it ever should).
AFAICT he wants to compute the pixel length of a chunk of text.
I don't see why we can't export to Elisp a C function that does that
re-using the same machinery used by the redisplay (and by vertical-motion).
Stefan
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