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Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Tue Aug 4 21:29:00 BST 2020
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On 04-Aug-2020 20:09, Ecmel Berk Canlıer wrote:
I just wrote about why Moonlander hasn't seen any commits after it's
first 3 days. Might be interesting to some of you.
gemini://ebc.li/posts/how-hard-can-it-be.gmiThat's a great post - thanks for the write up. Yes text rendering is really hard when you go beyond the basics, so I agree it saves a lot of frustration to use an existing library if you can.
If it is just text selection that is holding you back and you want to continue with your UI experiments, why not abandon text selection? If the user really wants text selection, you could offer a view-source of the raw content in a vanilla text window, and the user can select from there in a very straightforward way. You could even scroll to the line offset to help if you wanted.
Best Wishes
- Luke