From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pixel-based display functions Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:29:10 +0200 Message-ID: <8361bqogah.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnmq9ibf.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87lhlrx5fc.fsf@building.gnus.org> <878uhrcr5l.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83sifzjflk.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvbyagaw.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83iogujvbq.fsf@gnu.org> <87tx0ee7rf.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83egricpvg.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj97vic8.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83wq4argjp.fsf@gnu.org> <87iofui8vo.fsf@building.gnus.org> <838ugqqczp.fsf@gnu.org> <877fw9dndz.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83a914ozsh.fsf@gnu.org> <874mrb1t62.fsf_-_@building.gnus.org> <87vbjrl49k.fsf@violet.siamics.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422473373 6093 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 19:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ivan@siamics.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 20:29:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1YGYIq-00079N-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:29:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGYIp-0005bW-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGYIk-0005VG-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGYIg-00031v-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:55765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGYIg-00031m-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NIW00K00J5UPK00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:24:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NIW00DNFJ8SMP60@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:24:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181936 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:20:44 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Of course, the current display engine can't support filling text in > multiple columns currently, and extending it in this direction seems far > from trivial. > But I'm not sure how important this is at this stage. It's important. I get quite a few HTML emails that use 2 and sometimes even 3 columns (and shr lays them out beautifully with fixed-pitch fonts, thank you very much). > OTOH, it'd be good to provide better support (in the redisplay code) for > column display as used in things like tabulated-list-mode > (e.g. truncating the text of one column when it would overflow into the > next, for example, or providing right alignment of text in a column). I agree. We just need a volunteer.