GNU bug report logs - #76107
Consider image specs when scanning for a column

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Message #23 received at 76107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thuna <thuna.cing <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 76107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76107: Consider image specs when scanning for a column
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:56:45 +0100

> Maybe you are right.  But anyway, this is not the main point I was
> trying to make.  The main point is that using image-size is not
> accurately reproduce the actual horizontal coordinate on the screen.
>
> Can you tell why you need image support in current-column and friends?
> E.g., why posn-col-row and vertical-motion cannot do what you need?

I'm trying to get fill-paragraph (and visual-fill-column-mode) to work
properly in Org buffers with lots of previewed inline latex fragments.
fill-paragraph internally uses move-to-column, so that's what I'm
patching.  This isn't limited to Org, though.  Better image handling (or
at all) by default is a good thing to have in general.

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