From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:11:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1unprwv.fsf@gnu.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> <83fu5brer1.fsf@gnu.org> <9bd2a797-22b5-4c30-a39a-b5bd5dc98632@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520453392 12761 195.159.176.226 (7 Mar 2018 20:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 21:09:47 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 1etfNd-0002CL-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etfPg-0004jh-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etfPX-0004iI-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etfPW-0007Oz-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etfPT-0007O0-2K; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3024 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etfPS-00025i-Fx; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <9bd2a797-22b5-4c30-a39a-b5bd5dc98632@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:38:47 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:223428 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:38:47 -0800 > > > Take a look at enriched.el (and etc/enriched.txt as the demonstration > > of its capabilities): we already have the capability for serializing > > this, had it for many years. > > That's fine so long as you have a file you want to edit _only_ with > Emacs. Files that need to be understood by other tools would need > information about indentation adjustment included in some compatible way > (maybe a comment), but since other tools would know nothing of this > information, it would go out of date. Requiring that people edit a > source file only with Emacs is not realistic. Same thing happens with files produced by Office, no? Why do we require Emacs to do something different?