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Re: [emacs-bidi] understanding Emacs' display engine
From: |
Gerd Moellmann |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] understanding Emacs' display engine |
Date: |
19 Jan 2001 11:02:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.96 |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> This is a supplemental note to Eli's mail.
>
> >From the experience of my previous patch for basic bidi
> support, I think you should at first understand the function
> display_line (in xdisp.c) and these important functions
> called from it:
> get_next_display_element,
> set_iterator_to_next
> PRODUCE_GLYPHS
Yes, that's the lower level, so to say. After that, it's interesting
to study the display optimizations. I think it's informative to
read redisplay_window and try_window_id, at least.