[scintilla:bugs] #2511 Some doubtful use of `LineLayout::maxLineLength`

[Zufu Liu]

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[bugs:#2511] Some doubtful use of `LineLayout::maxLineLength`

Status: open
Group: Bug
Labels: layout Scintilla
Created: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:30 AM UTC by Zufu Liu
Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:30 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

The last character, style and position for LineLayout is at numCharsInLine index, for lineLength = model.pdoc->LineStart(lineNumber + 1) - model.pdoc->LineStart(lineNumber), maxLineLength >= lineLength >= numCharsInLine >= numCharsBeforeEOL.

maxLineLength is growth only (by LineLayout::Resize() method), it's tight to capacity for chars, styles and positions, so it may extremely larger than lineLength (line length with EOL), some code seems to treat it as lineLength.

1. Inside EditView::StartEndDisplayLine(), the check if (posInLine <= ll->maxLineLength) can (?) be changed into osInLine <= ll->numCharsInLine.

2. Inside LineLayout::PointFromPosition():

// In case of very long line put x at arbitrary large position
if (posInLine > maxLineLength) {
    pt.x = positions[maxLineLength] - positions[LineStart(lines)];
}

when posInLine > numCharsInLine, the result will be negative (positions beyond numCharsInLine are cleared and never write into), the code can be changed to use numCharsInLine:

// In case of very long line put x at arbitrary large position
if (posInLine > numCharsInLine) {
    pt.x = positions[numCharsInLine] - positions[LineStart(lines)];
}

1. Inside LineLayout::ClearPositions(), change maxLineLength to numCharsInLine could speedup word wrap on slow system, note that chars and styles beyond numCharsInLine are not cleared.

LineLayoutCache::Retrieve() can be changed to use ReSet() to reset the layout:

if (cache[pos] && !cache[pos]->CanHold(lineNumber, maxChars)) {
    //cache[pos].reset();
    cache[pos].ReSet(lineNumber, maxChars);
}

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[Zufu Liu]

I'm find these when try to align up maxLineLength to reduce resizing (similar to LineLayoutCache), and check whether it will makes word wrap faster ([feature-requests:#1481]), the gain is tiny (line wraps in random order and resizing count is small).

[Neil Hodgson]

1. "// In case of very long line". The comment doesn't really match the code. Its like that because LineLayout::maxLineLength used to be a hard coded constant =4000. Longer lines were just truncated.

Bounding to numCharsInLine seems OK.

1. No side effect (change to posRet can occur unless posInLine <= ll->numCharsBeforeEOL (3rd clause of if) so the change appears OK. Drop the redundant clause too.

2. "ClearPositions(), change maxLineLength to numCharsInLine". Leaving dead values is less stable than clearing to 0 and could lead to more subtle bugs that are dependent on history.

3. "Retrieve() can be changed to use ReSet()". That appears to save a LineLayout allocation so might be worthwhile.

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[bugs:#2511] Some doubtful use of `LineLayout::maxLineLength`

Status: open
Group: Bug
Labels: layout Scintilla
Created: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:30 AM UTC by Zufu Liu

Last Updated: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:59 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

[Zufu Liu]

Bounding to nnumCharsInLine seems OK.

will 1 be added like LineLayout::XInLine() ?

XYPOSITION LineLayout::XInLine(Sci::Position index) const noexcept {
    // For positions inside line return value from positions
    // For positions after line return last position + 1.0
    if (index <= numCharsInLine) {
        return positions[index];
    }
    return positions[numCharsInLine] + 1.0;
}

"Retrieve() can be changed to use ReSet()". That appears to save a LineLayout allocation so might be worthwhile.

EditView::FormatRange() can move LineLayout ll out from the loop, and reset it in the loop.

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[bugs:#2511] Some doubtful use of `LineLayout::maxLineLength`

Status: open
Group: Bug
Labels: layout Scintilla
Created: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:30 AM UTC by Zufu Liu

Last Updated: Thu Jun 11, 2026 07:34 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

[Neil Hodgson]

The +1 is about drawing some indicators more visibly and is only ever called from DrawIndicator.

EditView::FormatRange() ... ll out from the loop

It is cleaner to minimize the lifetime of variables and its unlikely avoiding some allocations will be significant here.

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[bugs:#2511] Some doubtful use of `LineLayout::maxLineLength`

Status: open
Group: Bug
Labels: layout Scintilla
Created: Fri Jun 05, 2026 07:30 AM UTC by Zufu Liu

Last Updated: Thu Jun 11, 2026 10:04 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson