From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raeburn@raeburn.org, dancol@dancol.org,
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:57:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1espty-0006YD-HZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:11:38 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:11:38 -0500
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Changing Emacs to handle indentation and alignment with
> variable-width fonts would be an important and useful change.
> Certain kinds of use would make sense, which currently don't.
This has come up several times, and I think I asked at least once what
does it need to entail. It would be helpful to have the answer to
that, which will have to be the result of looking at the relevant Lisp
code and figuring out which primitives/subroutines will need to be
taught fractional column values.
Emacs already knows how to align text at pixel resolution (which is
easy to express in fractions of the width of the default face's font),
and in fact already does so when it displays TAB characters on GUI
frames. We have the 'space' display property to do the same with
characters other than a TAB.
So what else is needed? Can someone who is familiar with indent.el
please tell?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-05 17:57 UTC|newest]
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2018-03-01 23:22 ` Let's make the GC safe and iterative (Was: Re: bug#30626) Daniel Colascione
2018-03-01 23:29 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-05 6:31 ` Ken Raeburn
2018-03-05 13:11 ` What improvements would be truly useful? Richard Stallman
2018-03-05 14:02 ` John Yates
2018-03-05 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-05 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-05 17:32 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2018-03-05 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 19:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-05 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 23:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-05 23:16 ` dancol
2018-03-06 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 21:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-08 4:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-08 9:16 ` Jefferson Carpenter
2018-03-08 9:17 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-08 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-08 20:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-09 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-09 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-09 22:42 ` Karl Fogel
2018-03-11 17:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-06 20:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-06 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 20:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-07 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 18:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-07 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 20:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-07 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-09 10:56 ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-09 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 16:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-10 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 15:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-05 19:05 ` Aaron Ecay
2018-03-05 20:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 23:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-09 11:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-09 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-10 20:23 ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-11 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-05 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-05 19:32 ` Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) dancol
2018-03-05 19:49 ` Variable-width font indentation Paul Eggert
2018-03-06 15:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-06 15:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 19:58 ` Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 20:28 ` Variable-width font indentation Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-05 22:30 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-05 22:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-06 1:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-06 1:40 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 2:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-06 3:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 19:50 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 5:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-06 13:18 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 20:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 13:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-07 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 16:07 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-07 22:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-08 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 14:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 16:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-06 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 17:55 ` dancol
2018-03-06 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 20:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-06 18:53 ` Sam Steingold
2018-03-06 22:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-07 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 19:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-07 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-08 12:33 ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-08 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 15:15 ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-06 20:52 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 4:05 ` Herring, Davis
2018-03-06 13:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 14:18 ` Herring, Davis
2018-03-06 15:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 19:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-06 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 21:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-06 21:47 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-07 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 18:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-07 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 20:32 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-08 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 16:30 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-08 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 19:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-09 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-09 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 20:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-09 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 21:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-10 0:09 ` James Cloos
2018-03-10 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 19:48 ` James Cloos
2018-03-10 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 22:18 ` James Cloos
2018-03-11 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 19:48 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-09 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 22:54 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-10 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 4:27 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-10 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 11:42 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-10 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 13:49 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-08 4:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-08 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 22:03 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-09 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 16:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-09 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 8:12 ` Variable-width font alignment Stephen Leake
2018-03-10 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 17:30 ` Stephen Leake
2018-03-10 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 7:42 ` Variable-width font indentation Stephen Leake
2018-03-06 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-06 19:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-05 23:05 ` Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 16:04 ` Variable-width font indentation Stefan Monnier
2018-03-06 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-06 20:56 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 20:55 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-07 7:05 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 16:14 ` Variable-width font indentation (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 20:55 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-05 18:51 ` What improvements would be truly useful? Daniele Nicolodi
2018-03-05 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 6:32 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2018-03-06 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 17:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-07 5:45 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2018-03-07 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 17:49 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2018-03-07 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 21:45 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-08 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 16:24 ` Alan Third
2018-03-08 18:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-06 7:48 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 21:15 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-05 23:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-03-06 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-02 20:40 ` Continuous image scrolling (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) Juri Linkov
2018-04-03 1:59 ` Continuous image scrolling Óscar Fuentes
2018-04-03 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-03 19:59 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-03 20:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-04 19:54 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-03 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-03 21:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-04 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-04 19:50 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-05 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-04 23:31 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-04-05 2:45 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-05 3:54 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-04-05 19:56 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-05 22:59 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-04-06 4:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-06 9:35 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-04-04 19:19 ` John Wiegley
2018-03-05 22:09 ` What improvements would be truly useful? John Wiegley
2018-03-05 23:04 ` daniel sutton
2018-03-06 20:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-08 11:44 ` Toon Claes
2018-03-08 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-12 21:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-01 23:38 ` Let's make the GC safe and iterative Stefan Monnier
2018-03-02 0:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-02 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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