From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffers menu question
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:16:29 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204282116.g3SLGTG05837@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y9faxb7e.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 27 Apr 2002 09:00:05 +0900)
Think about it: your attempt to make a constant width field will
involve something like the characters `*', `%', and SPC, all of which
are different widths -- and you don't even know the widths (not that
would do you much good if you did).
Just because the solution is not certain to work does not mean it
won't work well enough in practice. In the past in some contexts I
saw that many punctuation characters had the same width as space in
many fonts.
It may be possible to pick pairs of alternate characters that give
good results in most real cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-28 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-23 14:42 Buffers menu question Miles Bader
2002-04-24 17:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-25 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-26 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-26 12:33 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-26 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-27 0:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-28 21:16 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-04-28 22:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-29 18:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-30 1:22 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-30 5:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-30 5:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-30 21:19 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-27 0:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-27 3:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-27 22:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-28 1:48 ` Miles Bader
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