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26.0.50; Native line numbers lead to display error in company-mode popup

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Message #125 received at 27427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: alexanderm <at> web.de, 27427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27427: 26.0.50; Native line numbers lead to display error
 in company-mode popup
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:15:10 +0200

>> Cc: alexanderm <at> web.de, 27427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:24:21 +0300
>>
>> Weren't menus in the terminal rendered using a certain special method,
>> different from overlays?
>
> Yes.  We simply overwrite the glyph matrices with the menu contents,
> and then force a screen update.
>
> But this cannot work for features that want Emacs to return to the
> main loop, because anything that triggers any kind of redisplay will
> restore portions of the display from buffer text and mess up the menu.
>

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