On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:48:14PM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> The attached patch gets rid of the internal xo_ cache of LyXText.
Things are snapping into place after all.
I think I owe you something...
> The last situation where coords are used is when moving the cursor while it
> is off-screen. With the patch, we cleanly abort there ;-) There are at
> least two options: either we do nothing and just recenter the screen, so
> this first keystroke is lost (I think that operations that need coordinates
> are: cursor{up,down},page{up,down},{home,end} plus "selection" brothers)
> *or* we try to do it "right", by first updating the screen and then doing
> the cursor movement. In this case, we would obviously try to optimize for
> the case in which the cursor is on-screen (only the first keystroke is in
> the other case).
>
> I'm ambivalent between the two, mostly because I find myself countlesss
> times pressing cursor-right just to make the screen recenter... Still, I
> don't think that the second option is particularly more work (will see).
>
> Comments?
The second one sounds cleaner.
What about being a bit more generous from the beginning and not only
rebreaking paragraphs on screen, but paragraphs touching the range up
to one screen height above and one below. Wouldn't that solve the
problem, too?
In any case, you should start to consider merging your branch back to
HEAD....
Andre'
