From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Variable pitch text filling
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lf1288sf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2532e13c-f128-c486-0c5a-c9d561149927@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:32:08 -0800)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:32:08 -0800
>
> That said, I forgot to mention the most obvious case where the default
> Emacs configuration already changes the width of elements of the U:---
> thing: the newline indicator. For example, DOS newlines are indicated
> via U(DOS)---. (Unless you're on a Windows/DOS system, that is.)
>
> I use single-character indicators so that it's easier to cycle through
> them without clicking on the wrong thing. The default is probably easier
> to understand for new users, but I find it pretty annoying. Switching to
> icons here would be a nice improvement if they were all the same width.
It was deliberately designed to annoy and attract attention, because I
was told back then that users might otherwise miss an indication
that's telling them the file has an unusual (a.k.a. "foreign") EOL
format. If this is no longer an issue nowadays, we could change the
default to be one-character no matter what is the platform.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-03 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-26 14:45 Variable pitch text filling Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-26 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-27 7:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 8:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 13:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 15:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 18:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 4:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 14:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 16:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 18:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 18:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 19:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 8:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 15:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 20:32 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-02 21:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-02 22:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-03 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-03 7:14 ` Po Lu
2021-12-03 18:15 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-03 18:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-03 0:41 ` Po Lu
2021-12-03 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 15:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:30 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-02 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 19:03 ` Yuan Fu
2021-12-02 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:17 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:55 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:51 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:44 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:47 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 15:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-03 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 0:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-04 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 5:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 5:39 ` chad
2021-12-01 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 6:59 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-01 18:14 ` john muhl
2021-11-29 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 18:44 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-29 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 20:15 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-26 16:47 ` Yuan Fu
2021-12-01 17:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-01 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 15:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-11-26 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-30 1:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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