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Re: Future of display engine and lines
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Future of display engine and lines |
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Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:08:29 -0500 |
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> In any case, I don't think multiple-cursors have necessarily anything
> to do with the way we store and process buffer text. It's a display
> feature, not necessarily a text-editing feature.
I agree.
> I think if we ever seriously consider changing the representation of
> buffer text, we should consider first what will benefit faster display
> operations, not the efficiency of insertions and deletions. Because
> without well-known display problems, we won't have a good enough
> reason to change the buffer text representation in the first place.
> And it must be a very good reason, because the job of changing that
> representation is not a trivial one.
I agree with that too.
BTW, I think the data format used for text properties is similar to a
rope.
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