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: pasting outside Emacs Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:21:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83muzlq7jj.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520367656 28127 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 20:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 21:20:52 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 1etJ4p-0006Hu-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ6s-0005XE-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ5r-0005Vh-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ5r-0000u9-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ5n-0000s1-6d; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:21:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2103 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ5m-0001iN-DV; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:21:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:21:47 -0800 (PST)) 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:223369 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:21:47 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: Paul Eggert > > Could we, for example, (optionally) affect copy or paste > operations, to automatically try to compensate by inserting > the (more or less) right number of SPC chars of the > variable-width font (of the first non-whitespace char on the > line)? That shouldn't be needed, because those whitespace characters should be there in the first place. The display features should be applied on top of that, not instead of that.