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Re: What improvements would be truly useful?
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Daniele Nicolodi |
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Re: What improvements would be truly useful? |
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Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:32:28 -0700 |
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On 05/03/2018 12:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:51:09 -0700
>>
>> I think that what will help to keep Emacs relevant in the long run is
>> modernizing its structure and code base, moving away from the baroque
>> architecture that developed as a result of its very long history (and
>> some less than optimally future proof design decisions).
>
> What exactly are you talking about here? AFAIK, the Emacs
> architecture didn't change since its inception, so its long history
> has no relevance here. But maybe I'm missing something or
> misunderstanding what you intended to convey.
I'm far from being familiar with the Emacs codebase thus I may be
reporting something that it is not completely true, however: Emacs was
born as a console only application, the graphical user interface seems
to be duct taped on. Also, GTK support seems a bit of an hack that
requires layering violations (reaching down to the X primitives) to
work. Being GTK the only modern toolkit supported on Linux (as far as I
know) and the only way to get nartive Wayland support, some radical
cleanup in that area would probably be a good thing.
>> What would improve my user experience would be improvements to the
>> display engine that will allow a better document viewing
>> capabilities in something like pdf-tools (like continuous
>> scrolling).
>
> AFAIU, that's already possible from the display engine POV, what's
> missing is application-level Lisp code that would take advantage of
> the infrastructure.
Reading the pdf-tools bug report on the matter, I had the impression
that implementing this was not possible because of some Emacs
limitations. I'm happy if that's not the case. I'll go and investigate
more.
Cheers,
Dan
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- Re: Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/06
- Re: Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Richard Stallman, 2018/03/06
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Daniele Nicolodi, 2018/03/05
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/05
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- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Daniele Nicolodi, 2018/03/07
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/07
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Daniele Nicolodi, 2018/03/07
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/07
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- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/08
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