Re: Release plans

[Thomas Lord]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> current_column is one example of code that looks directly
> at buffer contents.
>   

I see.   And like regex.c it has special-case hair to cope with
the gap, etc.

FWIW I think this new data structure will be *easier* to
use and require less hair like that (but, proof is in the pudding
so we'll see when it's done).


> I cannot give an example from xdisp.c because I cannot find the code
> that actually looks at the buffer.  I don't remember the function name,
> and I can't find the place it is called from either.
>   

It looks to me like the display code has gotten gradually
more cleanly abstract over the years.    It still has all of the
considerable hair/tedium that seems to be intrinsic to the redisplay
problem but looks like it keeps a decent arm's length from
buffer internals.  It looks nicer than I remember it being
way back.

-t



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