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authorbfredl <bjorn.linse@gmail.com>2023-11-17 13:38:10 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-11-17 13:38:10 +0100
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Merge pull request #25934 from bfredl/screenlinechar
refactor(grid): make screen rendering more multibyte than ever before
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*'macatsui'*
*'maxcombine'* *'mco'*
- Nvim always displays up to 6 combining characters. You can still edit
- text with more than 6 combining characters, you just can't see them.
- Use |g8| or |ga|. See |mbyte-combining|.
+ Nvim counts maximum character sizes in bytes, not codepoints. This is
+ guaranteed to be big enough to always fit all chars properly displayed
+ in vim with 'maxcombine' set to 6.
+
+ You can still edit text with larger characters than fits in the screen buffer,
+ you just can't see them. Use |g8| or |ga|. See |mbyte-combining|.
+
+ NOTE: the rexexp engine still has a hard-coded limit of considering
+ 6 composing chars only.
+
*'maxmem'* Nvim delegates memory-management to the OS.
*'maxmemtot'* Nvim delegates memory-management to the OS.
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