Re: Drawing UI elements behind text

[Cecilio Pardo]

On 27/11/2024 22:15, JD Smith wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2024, at 1:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > They are anchored at locations on the buffer, specified by line/column.
>
> Would it make sense to attach the drawn elements to text rather than row/column 
> positions?  Otherwise you may need to recompute and redraw the entire buffer’s 
> line content even after inserting a single character. For concreteness, suppose 
> you are drawing a fancy box around a paragraph.

Yes, that makes sense as an additional option. Maybe attach it to an 
overlay position + (x,y).