Re: Correct way to implement `pixel-point-and-height-at-unseen-line'?

[Emanuel Berg]

Po Lu wrote:

> I don't know how to make
> `pixel-point-and-height-at-unseen-line' work correctly: if
> I use `line-pixel-height', it will only report the height
> the first individual line inside a display string if there
> is one above window start, but if I use
> `window-text-pixel-size', I have to determine the region to
> measure, which is quite troublesome.
>
> For example, window start is often not the beginning of
> a visual line

`window-start', `beginning-of-visual-line' ...

You can post the code instead ... that way you don't have to
remove the dashes.

> This works okay until there is a `line-prefix' property at
> window start: in this case, window start is the beginning of
> a visual line, but it does not display at the beginning of
> the line, which means `window-text-pixel-size' will add the
> height of the current line to that of the previous line.
> I will add a workaround to pixel-scroll.el, but there must
> be a cleaner way to implement this.

Sounds pretty clean to me but difficult to say since you are
not posting the actual code.

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