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: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:31:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgf5q73p.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> <838tb5rxoe.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520368248 23354 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 20:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 21:30:44 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 1etJEQ-0005K3-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:30:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJGT-0000TI-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJF3-0000Rr-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:31:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJF2-0005Uo-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:31:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJEy-0005ST-Cp; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2109 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJEx-00084g-Q2; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:31:16 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:59:21 -0500) 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:223371 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:59:21 -0500 > > * Paul and I have been discussing an language-agnostic heuristic to preserve alignment when changing from monospace to variable-pitch faces. This intends to preserve the original indentation of the code, by inferring what it would have been if the logic originally used to indent the document had been aware of variable-pitch faces. I don't see a need for such a feature, sorry. We have indentation already; its only problem is that it doesn't work well with variable pitch fonts. That's what we need to try to fix, if we care about the capability of displaying program code with such fonts. > * You're describing a language-specific way to get a nice-looking variable-pitch rendering of a document; your way is to reindent the document, essentially. I was describing a way of teaching the existing indentation code handle variable-pitch fonts.