Re: Eglot "inlay hints" landed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chinmay Dalal <dalal.chinmay.0101@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dimitri Belopopsky <dimitri@belopopsky.com>, Po Lu
>  <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Eli  Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:59:17 +0530
> 
> > So, by default, inlay hints are only requested for the visible portions
> > of the buffer across windows showing this buffer.  This is done by
> > leveraging the 'window-scroll-functions' variable, making for a
> > reasonably complex implementation involving per-window timers.  When
> > scrolling a window, it may take a short amount of time for inlay hints
> > to "pop in".
> 
> Can it be instead done in such a way that initially (when loading a new
> file) they are requested for the whole buffer, then on subsequent
> changes they are only requested for the visible regions.

Why would we want that?