Re: Emacs canvas support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:14:18 +0200
> 
> Let's take another very simple example: I often wished it would be
> possible to tell Emacs "Put an image at pixel position (x,y)" without
> having to anchor it to some point position. For instance, I have a block
> of text and would like to have an image next to it. Last I checked, the
> only way to do this is to create a "sliced image" which automatically
> gets cut up into rows and columns, but this is a very brittle workaround
> (it doesn't work with an increased line-spacing, for instance).

Under the current design of the display engine, I believe anything
displayed inside a window must come from some buffer text position or
from a string.