From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display question: should ^N and \NNN widths be fixed? Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:14:02 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205242114.g4OLE2T02822@aztec.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022274955 29385 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2002 21:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17BMPj-0007dq-00 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 23:15:55 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17BMfm-0004Td-00 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 23:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17BMQD-0003gs-00; Fri, 24 May 2002 17:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17BMNv-0003SZ-00; Fri, 24 May 2002 17:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4OLE2K25165; Fri, 24 May 2002 15:14:02 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g4OLE2T02822; Fri, 24 May 2002 15:14:02 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Thu, 23 May 2002 14:16:54 -0700) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4352 in src/indent.c `current_column', ^N and \NNN are presently hard coded as taking 2 and 4 columns, respectively. Currently the functions in indent.c don't handle variable width fonts at all. Extending them to do so is an important project. When that is done, I expect it won't be too hard to handle these two cases also.