From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 24510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:14:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76676126-f9f5-b651-bcb1-bf80a868f990@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pontb2p8.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 2016-09-24 13:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I find it hard to believe you
> are saying that we should switch from Courier New to MingLiu as the
> default font: that'd be absurd.
It doesn't feel more more absurd than using Courier New in the first place, frankly. But sorry for diverting the thread. I don't use Emacs on Windows, so I don't really care about good defaults there.
> Emacs supports non-programming applications as well, not just
> programming modes. In fact, the trigger for this discussion was Info,
> a non-programming mode very close to Text mode.
Why does info use a monospace font?
>>> One reason is that Emacs has a wider range of different
>>> applications, where being able to support as many languages and
>>> scripts as possible is more important than in Studio or even Vim.
>>> E.g., at least some of the editors you mention are never used as
>>> email/news clients or Web browsers, where the ability to support as
>>> many scripts as possible is important.
>>
>> Do many of these applications require a monospace font?
>
> We use a monospaced font for the default face because it suits well
> both programming and non-programming modes, and because aligning text
> is much easier with such a font. Text alignment is important in modes
> that present summaries in tabular form, like modes that show listing
> of buffers, email summaries, Dired, Proced, etc.
Doesn't we the special 'space' display property make it possible to properly align variable-width fonts?
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[not found] ` <<83intneq2g.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<7f9c8f95-a04d-4e94-9c17-8a348bf89215@default>
[not found] ` <<83d1jvds1t.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-09-23 16:02 ` bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like ` Drew Adams
2016-09-23 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-23 20:07 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-24 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 16:30 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-24 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 17:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-24 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 18:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-09-24 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 18:40 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-24 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 18:14 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<<6905ca6f-0573-4a2b-b346-d5df47862e09@default>
[not found] ` <<<83intneq2g.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<<7f9c8f95-a04d-4e94-9c17-8a348bf89215@default>
[not found] ` <<<83d1jvds1t.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<c5f5356e-222a-48b0-9b80-dd242f982cec@default>
[not found] ` <<83mviycxse.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-09-23 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-24 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-25 8:07 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2016-09-22 17:04 Drew Adams
2016-09-22 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-22 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-22 20:41 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-22 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-23 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-22 20:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-22 22:10 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-09-22 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-28 10:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-28 17:38 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-28 18:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 19:00 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-29 6:51 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-29 10:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-29 17:17 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-30 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 17:11 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-01 18:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 16:12 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-03 10:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 14:58 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-03 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-03 18:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-05 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-05 16:44 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-06 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-06 11:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 14:40 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-06 15:32 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-06 17:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 19:23 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-29 15:01 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-28 18:58 ` Drew Adams
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