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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Frédéric Baldit" <frederic.baldit@free.fr>
Cc: 46590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46590: 27.1.91; abnormal whitespace-mode behavior
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:54:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838s7evkyo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210223150547.45f58520@Cornafion.lan> (message from Frédéric Baldit on Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:05:47 +0100)

> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:05:47 +0100
> From: Frédéric Baldit <frederic.baldit@free.fr>
> Cc: 46590@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I just began reading whitespace.el, in particular the use of the
> display table, which seems to be crucial here. But I'm just
> learning emacs (and emacs lisp), so there could be a long way
> before I can truly  (and deeply) understand whitespace.el code and see
> how to fix the bug.

I don't think this can be fixed without a complete redesign how a TAB
is displayed under this mode.  display-tables simply cannot deal with
such situations.  But I didn't think about this too long, so maybe I'm
missing something.

> I asked myself: should I contact the maintainer of whitespace.el
> (Vinicius Jose Latorre) to get some help?

I don't know, but what do you have to lose?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-23 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 14:06 bug#46590: 27.1.91; abnormal whitespace-mode behavior Frédéric Baldit
2021-02-17 18:12 ` Bhavin Gandhi
2021-02-20  9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 14:05   ` Frédéric Baldit
2021-02-23 15:54     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-17 15:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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