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From: sbaugh@catern.com
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:22:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0p4vqkq.fsf@catern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv8s5lx8xn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I want this centering display to be handled by the display engine, as
>> other similar things are.
>
> Another way to say it is that you want it to work even when the buffer
> is displayed simultaneously in two different windows of different sizes
> and using different default faces.

Ah, yes, precisely!

> The current display engine doesn't know how to do that.  While I'm not
> personally very interested in centering text in the window, I'd be very
> happy to see improvements in this area of the display engine (the part
> I'm interested in is for tabular display where :align-to doesn't really
> work for right-aligned columns).

Hmm... is there a single change that would allow both that and the
text-centering I want?




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 18:25 Horizontal centering in the display engine sbaugh
2021-04-13 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 19:28   ` sbaugh
2021-04-13 19:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 20:49       ` sbaugh
2021-04-14  6:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 13:28           ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 13:42             ` Yuan Fu
2021-04-14 14:04             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-14 15:22               ` sbaugh [this message]
2021-04-14 14:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 15:25               ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 15:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14  8:28         ` martin rudalics
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-15  5:13 Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2021-04-15  7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-15 11:39   ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2021-04-15 12:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 13:05       ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.

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