Re: About inline pictures

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:16:49 +0100 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote: 

DE> You can scroll a buffer through fractional scrolling, but at the same
DE> the Emacs display engine will make sure that the point always stays
DE> visible. Therefore, to get a smooth scrolling buffer, you have to make
DE> sure that the point is always visible while doing the fractional
DE> scrolling. In image-mode, this is easy since there's only one possible
DE> point position (namely, point-min).

DE> I've posted my results here:

DE> http://www.randomsample.de/dru5/node/25

DE> I use it to scroll article buffers with images in them. I've also made
DE> videos showing the normal and fractional scrolling:

DE> http://www.randomsample.de/dru5/node/26

DE> It's not perfect, but it works for me. Of course, this type of scrolling
DE> is only useful for read-only buffers, since it manipulates the point
DE> position.

Does fixing this properly require work at the core C level?  Or is your
approach going to work for everyone?

Ted