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Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm just brainstorming here, but could Org use a display spec with 
> specified spaces[1] to make Emacs render a space of the appropriate 
> width? That requires a bit of computation, but it's how 
> 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode' and SHR handle (roughly) similar sorts of things.

If one uses display spec, editing the text underneath will become
tricky. Org mode is first and foremost a text format and should remain
editable using normal text editing commands.

Of course, third-party packages are free to make such visual changes, if
they believe that they constitute an improvement.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode maintainer,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
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