From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <967f2435-63c9-4541-ae82-4f0d9b61e192@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520372593 29578 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 21:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 22:43:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etKM9-0004N4-8G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:42:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etKOC-00015X-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etKBf-0005iO-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etKBa-0001wR-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from userp2130.oracle.com ([156.151.31.86]:48076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etKBa-0001w5-Hd; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from pps.filterd (userp2130.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by userp2130.oracle.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w26LTicu122785; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:31:44 GMT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=mime-version : message-id : date : from : sender : to : cc : subject : references : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2017-10-26; bh=dfhes8L2NWQO0ZoNYs1UOyCugXbq/xo1ptJXQYHlLKo=; b=bgEbB8qfo93W0ddxxYpNwiH/PFy0hdPYbTXCqEanZQnPWPs6g19gE6+K+J1GAtqYK15+ j7PV4sOPgZ0DJyK3zbgQRdTgBjIqWthHUMeLDAa5NcwJLDnqwKB1JsSzHMS5BmTrUoqj JZQn52VFYOegxlvZyfs/Ltz8IPl/TgQPRquHYjCyHhQtdQ4QYfif5qk29R7cQPKMuF+m WjidrMOw4UcdTao4PhMyAlXbttIFa/FORhQHi0GYTiPGNe/91hsG1kcXPtinkOURub5Y 2/svWuy5OKQ+CiW74f7vhUJva+Qbkmnn6UB2SMEAZCUvm1llKbNFHLc8wV9VAOfeH9f5 5w== Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp2130.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2gj2xyg09j-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:31:44 +0000 Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w26LVhon016515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:31:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0002.oracle.com (abhmp0002.oracle.com [141.146.116.8]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w26LVhAf019148; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:31:43 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4654.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8824 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=1 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=743 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1803060230 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.86 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223385 Archived-At: > > But all of that is only about how the text appears inside Emacs. > > What about copying text and pasting it into other applications? >=20 > This is am important area for work. The first question > is to figure out what behavior is right. >=20 > 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. >=20 > We might want to do different things in modes for software.