Re: "Final" version of tty child frames

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:02:50 +0100
> Cc: jared@finder.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>  >> But then the question is
>  >> what do we expect from set_cursor_from_row to do when the correct
>  >> position of the cursor is obscured by the child frame?
>  >
>  > That's the question, yes.
> 
> In a fix I don't like I've put it on the first character on the right of
> any child frame encountered.  But then the real point position will be
> still hidden under the child frame.  So when you lean on C-f (in a
> non-bidi context), the cursor immediately jumps to that position on the
> right of any child frame but point still has to catch up with that
> situation and only when it does that the cursor will continue moving.
> Disconcerting and ugly.

Yes, I don't think this strategy could work well.

I could try thinking about something more sophisticated and complex,
but given the alternative with having a separate glyph matrix, it
sounds unnecessary.