Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:03:16 +0200
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jao@gnu.org
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> 
> On 22-09-08 15:54 , Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:47:48 +0200
> >> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jao@gnu.org
> >> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> And I'd leave the "normal" terminal code out of this.
> > 
> > Including frame-based redisplay in update_frame?
> 
> Yes, I'd leave that as-is.  The frame-based updates used to be quite
> important for relatively dumb and slow terminals because it increases 
> the possibility of reusing parts of the display that are alreay 
> displayed on the terminal.

So you basically are saying that this should be a new kind of
window-system, yes?  Because we will need to distinguish it both in
places other than write_glyphs, and also in Lisp.