From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dancol@dancol.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:16 -0800 Message-ID: <1f646d8d6a6c4731cc789715df4d7e9b.squirrel@dancol.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2oxqelu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520358818 8479 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 17:53:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:53:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.23 [SVN] Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 18:53:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etGmC-0000Wz-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:53:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGoE-0006nu-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:55:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGo5-0006mo-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGo4-0002Xd-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:60266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGo2-0002Wd-Nb; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:55:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Cc:To:From:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID; bh=8dmEfUUQfVlYgoRCkFjQHDuTzRQa6IKd9hFI1ZzIMts=; b=hDJBzfAhf3sf8ILddav01nWcgQd8tmbUoOt/OOStuyuCu6J0v2y4fnV98e/63Xi09xwVbDXr/9HTI+3HvegSMh3gEz+k2n/mvWvgWx2065OebxcqXQCLbtSj3s57IckTH2u/TabER2OGaPF4ldZU97wTvy5oUG6M2XERnJrUyURC49EvFt+/LzcsZncMFsCSsyBrEyFcNdUwbJ/q1tK2nUvUCCYrtq2rORBp+J/S2lHeIJfvTUyQhxvmFvKhJn9DKBzy+qlsjSsl1rcUbpOoaIJv7q1dLQlTaddK0DoSU0KkiM7QowVfTtvdnR6cAEYPjEmhSilAnjp4Ugv/FtTgUQ==; Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dancol.org) by dancol.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etGo0-0003yF-Pu; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:55:16 -0800 Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dancol) by dancol.org with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:16 -0800 In-Reply-To: <83r2oxqelu.fsf@gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223353 Archived-At: >> Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Daniel Colascione >> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:38:28 -0800 >> >> > We could have an interactive alignment feature, whereby the user could >> > move a character at pixel resolution, until it aligns to the user's >> > liking. The implementation would modify the :align-to attribute of >> > the display property we put on whitespace before that character. >> >> How would you serialize the result? > > You mean, save it to a disk file? I think we should insert the number > of blanks to align stuff with fixed-pitch font, so that it looks well > with those fonts. If we want to preserve the display properties > across sessions, we could use enriched-text-mode, I think. I don't think there's any clean way to embed this alignment information in arbitrary program text though.