Subject: bug#27427: 26.0.50; Native line numbers lead to display error in company-mode popup

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:41:21 +0300

> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:20:34 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
>  > Why not the other way around: let the application specify the text and
>  > the position of the popup in dedicated variables, and then redisplay
>  > could just access those as part of its job?
> 
> The application has to react when a given buffer position changes its
> position on screen.

Yes, but I presumed it will do it the same way company-mode reacts to
such changes today.  Currently. company-mode recomputes and moves its
overlay; it will instead recompute the text and its position.