From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <967f2435-63c9-4541-ae82-4f0d9b61e192@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1etJdf-00039f-Nj@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > But all of that is only about how the text appears inside Emacs.
> > What about copying text and pasting it into other applications?
>
> This is am important area for work. The first question
> is to figure out what behavior is right.
>
> Would you like to work on that?
Not I, but I hope that those who design the new treatment
of indentation and alignment think about this aspect too.
> It would be useful to look at what happens when copying
> text in and out of LibreOffice, and between two windows
> of LibreOffice. That could give an idea of what we
> would want Emacs to do, at least in modes for documents.
>
> We might want to do different things in modes for software.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 18:21 Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs Drew Adams
2018-03-06 19:09 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 19:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-06 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-07 6:28 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 20:56 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 21:31 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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