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?
next prev parent 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
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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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