Re: Eglot "inlay hints" landed

[Chinmay Dalal]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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?

It will solve this problem:

>> > When
>> > scrolling a window, it may take a short amount of time for inlay hints
>> > to "pop in".