[HarfBuzz] Clear buffer contents without clearing direction or script

Kelvin Ma kelvinsthirteen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 18:52:24 UTC 2016


that’s what I’m doing right now, i was just wondering if there was a
shortcut because I often have to do this when reshaping part of a run so I
figure it might be good to have it as an api function

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 1, 2016 11:37 AM, "Kelvin Ma" <kelvinsthirteen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to remove all the codepoints from a buffer object while
> leaving the direction, script, and language intact?
>
> No.  Those properties depend on buffer text, si it doesn't make sense to
> clear text but not those.  It's two lines to capture them and set them
> back.  HarfBuzz is a library, it provides building blocks that enable what
> people need to do, not every imaginable combination of lines of code
> someone might need...
>
> > buffer_clear_contents() clears that data too.
> >
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