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[PATCH] Enable xwidget scrolling optimizations, and other xwidgets improvements

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 51473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51473: [PATCH] Enable xwidget scrolling optimizations, and other xwidgets improvements
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 20:40:49 +0800

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It is generally a good idea to have a @cindex entry with the name of
> the section (but with lower-case letters), so that the section could
> be easily found via Info-index.

Thanks, done.

> This style is better avoided: it produces long sentences that are hard
> to grasp for non-native speakers, because the important part ("in") is
> at the end.  It is better to say it simply:
>
>   Each window that displays an xwidget will also have a @dfn{xwidget
>   view}, ...
>
> And add a @cindex for "xwidget-view", again generally a good practice
> of indexing each place that introduces new terminology (indicated by
> @dfn).

Likewise.

> What about NS?  And what about Wayland?

I don't know exactly how it is handled on NS.  On Wayland, it's still an
X window that runs through Wayland's compatibility layer for X
applications.  (Like the rest of Emacs, at present.)

> I'd drop the second of these sentences.  It doesn't add anything to
> the description.

Done as well, please check the attached patch.

[0001-Document-the-xwidget-type.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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