Re: moving point over invisible and intangible text

[Stefan Monnier]

> On a related issue, maybe line-move (and friends) could be simplified
> if one could query the display engine about "glyph-after", "glyph-before",
> "glyph-below" and "glyph-above" and let them return a buffer position
> (and possibly also an X and Y pixel position).  Then the movements
> would reflect what's actually on the display.

> And it might even work better with proportional fonts as well.

That would be great.

> Of course there are border cases when the target position is outside
> the window, but in that case we could fall-back to the current code.

Or it could fill the missing glyph row(s).


        Stefan