Re: redisplay system of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:07:57 +0100
> Cc: "alin.s" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Could it be possible to take off all the redisplay and create a 
> >> standardized
> >> system of redisplay, that everybody can understand quickly? Everybody can
> >> write an add-on for Mozilla. I do not know how redisplay of Mozilla works,
> >> but as time as new add ons appear every day, that means that the system is
> >> very standardized and easy to learn.
> >
> > Last time I looked, Mozilla wasn't anywhere close to supporting the
> > features Emacs has in its display engine.
> 
> 
> What features?

The ones described in the nodes "Display Property" and "Special
Properties" in the ELisp manual, for example.