From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:19:54 +0800 Message-ID: <87lii5yy51.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pq7hz24r.fsf@gnu.org> <8A9A3FFCBD5F433094079C3662EB3314@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343406081 9967 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2012 16:21:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12067@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 18:21:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SunHu-0004Ne-Ff for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:21:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SunHt-0004t7-Nv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SunHm-0004rH-3d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SunHl-0002nN-2K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SunHk-0002n7-Pg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SunOT-00033K-Pq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:28:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jason Rumney Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:28:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12067 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12067-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12067.134340644011680 (code B ref 12067); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12067) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jul 2012 16:27:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44311 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SunNo-00032L-9A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.213.44]:62697) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SunNk-00032B-NZ for 12067@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: by yhq56 with SMTP id 56so3314655yhq.3 for <12067@debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:20:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=FVKJpSKehc7hKqQKbsq5D5gUmAxbkQlpQjfi2uh2T7I=; b=DI/i8+g5WWm2OBTMEZmAW6Cajb6jAppBekpzr3KEDnvE1t8Mr9DHK9MjBKknEt1aPh h/wqEeOsduzG2ZQEpQcarOcbHGOOyxMKqFvpnfMnpDMUm4Hsu2HoIUhLPsO3f9lRFoYh M5MNoeBadcCTiuZwDQ133Ajn8RV6PxL/l4lZshhL9m9ZL9gSVdyPLCpvQN23HMwgewc4 rU5OwEg8oPizia1VPxe62HOxM3HcU3l3AaCVxnXkK+khx1pl1kZe+2tjl4RcYb/UBROJ oxwnID9mg8E6yfVjDkQLt+Gk2KzCkViO38ARrvX9okJBB/5AebfVzQfEMvA37dXTfc5g hMSw== Original-Received: by 10.66.88.39 with SMTP id bd7mr6591245pab.50.1343406017643; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.106.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wa14sm2179636pbc.10.2012.07.27.09.20.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 30C9429F6; Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:19:55 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <8A9A3FFCBD5F433094079C3662EB3314@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:06:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:62463 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> > It turns out that using only a single \t does the right >> > thing in terms of alignment in this case. But shouldn't >> > multiple \t's let you tab (indent) further, as they do >> > in text buffers, doc strings, etc.? And >> > presumably \t\t should not draw a rectangle, in any case. >> >> No. A menu is not a buffer. > > No one said it is. You seem to be requesting it to act like one above. In Windows menus, a tab character is a not valid printing character, hence is drawn as a rectangle. An exception is that if one, and only one, tab character appears in a menu string, it is used as a separator to separate the menu text (left aligned in most locales) from the key shortcut (right aligned in those locales). YMMV with menus on other platforms however.