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: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:02:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83tufvukjj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ilwft1ph.fsf@gnus.org> <837dcv2c2c.fsf@gnu.org> <875ysft0l3.fsf@gnus.org> <835yse3n01.fsf@gnu.org> <87lf1ars0f.fsf@gnus.org> <83czmm11t0.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7byrplm.fsf@gnus.org> <83a6hq0zey.fsf@gnu.org> <87lf19r7uv.fsf@gnus.org> <83tufxy7f0.fsf@gnu.org> <83o865xuf3.fsf@gnu.org> <87v90b136m.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31171"; 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 Mon Nov 29 15:16:54 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 1mrhSe-0007oU-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:16:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55924 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhSd-0004AU-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhEi-0006Ly-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:02:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=43584 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 1mrhEh-000598-V6; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:02:27 -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=1hvJnmSunzzbiHj/Ej9lYOTlG3+j0msfkVYUOi4YHi4=; b=kSxs8lWH0HOr CVCDOtJGQag4BQNnpcpyEywBmCIA5RGuT9f6bsiP259zZVRM7IXy554Aer8hSfw/XWuK1knv1+BCe DKS0rOSRHalCJNg1czZc2POBcGd5V67IWgzkkodS0Bj4CDANGNE4XX6LbvLQw8B/La+kbjZTYKNe7 joVCWsWNGxivKVwxPunSnqvETca/h41gZxaN7n8ivnmkLpceYBjCAvem2Bjgjr/7oJho3op8zhq4L paNfhXz3pX4zDzqSsbou6oS85iMiv/17bXrhqsCjTpnR7Dy4aQjZUvlz50GqXKGgZuLqwl6SGKH45 /eUZPRrxAntmLAK3aUl+sQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2445 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 1mrhEh-0005Ql-Mg; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:02:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v90b136m.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:50:25 +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:280482 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:50:25 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I think a better idea is to use the width of the face's ASCII font (or > > its average width, if that's a variable-pitch face). Then everything > > will scale as expected with the face's height. > > Hm... Oh, OK, I see what you mean now. Yes, I think that would work > fine, but it's semantically slightly odd to have these width spec work > differently than the other width specs. Well, the spec will have a different name, and the documentation will explain what that means.