From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73128 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Truncating lines in the article buffer Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:39:01 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87y6a0ty9m.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87zkuh3gfb.fsf@blah.blah> <87hbgox141.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj60vhek.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287081569 15620 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2010 18:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:39:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21500@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 14 20:39:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Si3-00026i-1s for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:39:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Si0-0001Cg-4s; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:39:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Shy-0001CP-N1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Shu-0001Om-MI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P6Sht-0005tp-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Shr-00021b-U6 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:39:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:39:11 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:39:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6oz3FdxFzHRYjRd3rrVak5h4qKE= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73128 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:19:55 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> Then you can't render HTML accurately with the current approach. You're >> fighting Emacs at every step: the text layout is hard, you can't flow >> around images, displaying images is a pain, etc. LMI> No, the only thing that's impossible is to render images in tables. The LMI> rest works pretty well. (If we'd have truncate-lines on a per-line LMI> basis, it'd be pretty darn perfect.) Why not walk through the buffer and apply the equivalent of truncate-lines to every line? You could set some text property to indicate it's needed. LMI> I'm fine with not displaying the images in the tables. I think it's LMI> impossible* to do in Emacs, but it's not very important. Having the LMI> text be readable is, though. You could display the image as an icon (the size of a character) and the user can toggle it to full size with RET or mouse-1. Ted