Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> To add a `max-width' to a series of characters, it first has to see
>> whether there's any other bits with a `display' property.
>
> It does? why is that?

If you're (put-text-property foo bar 'display '(max-width ...)) and
there's bits in the region with an image or a height display property,
they'll go missing.

>> And do this efficiently, so that we don't get a bunch of short lists
>> when there's different overlapping regions with `display'.
>
> You cannot have overlapping regions with different values of the
> 'display' property (or of any other text property), so I'm not sure
> what are you alluding to here.

Exactly -- if you want to have a region with max-width from 1 to 10, and
height from 5 to 15, you have to create three different intervals.

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