Re: The redisplay engine is getting really messy ...

Kyle Jones writes: Kyle> We should remember that some of this stuff has never worked right. Your Kyle> example certainly hasn't. The problem here is the lack of a proper Kyle> internal notification of the change. Exactly. Kyle> I haven't found redisplay problems hard to fix, but there is a long Kyle> period of study required before it becomes obvious where to look to fix Kyle> problem. This study would still be required if we were to do a rewrite, True :-( While I have several ideas in mind that I'd like to see implemented in redisplay, I couldn't even begin to estimate the amount of work it could require, because I know I don't master the whole engine. Kyle> alas, because Emacs has some historical display behavior that we would Kyle> have to duplicate. I don't quite understand this. Could you elaborate ? -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19