From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable pitch text filling Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:29:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83ilw8qg2s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ilwft1ph.fsf@gnus.org> <87wnkp9c3t.fsf@gnus.org> <87ee6wanra.fsf@gnus.org> <83r1awse4k.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfvc8kdw.fsf@gnus.org> <83czmgs7t1.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0go8ios.fsf@gnus.org> <83bl20s2dp.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnkojmny.fsf@gnus.org> <837dcos1oy.fsf@gnu.org> <87o860jm27.fsf@gnus.org> <831r2ws0jf.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsrcjkik.fsf@gnus.org> <83y254qkq3.fsf@gnu.org> <87y254i56e.fsf@gnus.org> <83tufsqkd3.fsf@gnu.org> <87tufsi3x7.fsf@gnus.org> <83o860qi1i.fsf@gnu.org> <87czmgi2ec.fsf@gnus.org> <83lf14qgpu.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsrcgmdu.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7924"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 20:47:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msVZU-0001p5-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:47:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVZQ-0001Xw-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVIa-00030i-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=37888 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVIZ-00086w-Oz; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:29:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=mALcTFO1d5xT5v/szv3Ql3OWSfEPVgTSKDC5NunDIMo=; b=U0f/g/sve9tV zhN7Vr0JHzAWpqBLna1mNbHk9PKcG2dZIJ/aMdEjCy9UstcOiTHoV7eC7VPbswvdyg4PBpslxBigR cbJAbH1Fh8agMfn9Pkw98YNc+eMeplln5c/oVPHeQpEcRK0tJ6olXj01f6Mbskk9rIdh2FyPE1Ud1 M4iZ8eQVTGNoN2EyY98QaZjskTVtKlnsZv0Ds3x3Sm960ayGFpwwzdBACct9GwqgEUmOq0fggpunA +wtmAErdOliNBGEj1Fz2HSswsnkUwaDHjI+8q7EDpn2jOLtjw2bgX9F9C4T9VnpKliC5SBWbLNGEj qCHOQ2nfTRvZXZ/MxkBy8w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1984 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVIZ-0002Fy-Hd; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:29:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fsrcgmdu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:23:25 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280687 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:23:25 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> I think we're going for 6 typical characters for the "U:--", which > >> is four separate typical character widths. > > > > So the last one should have a larger min-width. Doesn't that solve > > the problem? > > No? If the ":" becomes twice as wide, that won't affect the min-width > of the last "-". And so the bits after the last "-" will shift to the > right. But the same will happen in your case if ":" becomes 10 times as wide! there's no end to this if we are going to consider hypothetical cases which will never happen. min-width is about handling too-narrow strings, not too wide strings.