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22:18:25
jackdaniel
I'd work on improving Listener. nyef has reported quite a few issues with it (it is on the tracker), most of them looked quite easy but important to fix
2:33:05
loke
As for completion, Drei handles that quite well with just a keymap. I did it for Climaxima. Feel free to have a look here:
2:44:55
loke
That said, it's not ideal, and that main problem is caused by precisely what JD raised as the big issue with Drei; the multi-buffer architecture
2:45:46
loke
The problem is that when the TAB key is pressed, there is no way (that I have found) to actually figure out where on the screen the user is typing, since there is no link from buffer→window.
4:36:50
loke
beach`: I decided to implement a font replacement cache, so that I don't have to call out to Fontconfig every time I need to find the correct font for a given character. Drei is still not very efficient, but at least the amplification of its problems due to excessive font lookups have now been dealt with:
5:44:42
loke
I implemented the following function, that has a stable default but which is implemented by the Freetype renderer. The native Truetype renderer could also implement it if someone wanted to, in which case you'd get glyph replacement in Drei there as well:
7:28:00
loke
the pane contains a munch of presentations and stuff, and I just want to clear it all and start over. :-)
7:29:22
jackdaniel
hm, there is also window-clear which resets pane properties like scroll-extent, cursor etc
7:31:03
loke
one weird thing though, if I do window-clear, the contant gets removed, but the new stuff I add isn't painted.
7:35:20
jackdaniel
note-sheet-region-changed is for (suprise suprise) situations when region changes
7:35:55
jackdaniel
not when output-history changes (so it won't necessarily repaint *anything* - for instance if region doesn't change, or it gets smaller)
7:37:28
loke
I want to try :-) Do I have to set the event-timestamp to something, or can I just leave it as NIL?