Re: Pixel-based display functions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> `window-text-pixel-size' is one attempt to do that.
>
> Can that function be called before redisplay has happened?

I guess so, because it calls

  start_display (&it, w, startp);

And it seems pretty fast.  The main problem with it is that it has to
work in a window, and much of the computation in shr takes place in
temporary buffers.  But perhaps that can be worked around somehow.

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