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Emacs canvas patch is on master

8 pointsby iLemmingtoday at 6:07 PM2 commentsview on HN

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spudlyotoday at 6:28 PM

The headline comes from the most recent post in the thread from Eli Zaretskii:

> Thanks, this is now installed on the master branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug.

Good news! This will enable a bunch of future in-buffer graphics features -- things like Headless/Playwright Chromium using Emacs as a display server or faster PDF viewers. Org-babel should be able to make use of this too for faster data plotting. I can only imagine the kinds of snazzy Emacs graphical UI interfaces this will enable, beyond what is being currently done using SVG hacks for rendering.

iLemmingtoday at 6:07 PM

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