From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect TAB width
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:03:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DhqT4-0000pa-LB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050612132253.GB82470@memo.frmug.org> (message from Bertrand Petit on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:22:53 +0200)
This is an important problem, and I think we need to fix it. I cannot
reproduce it myself, since I don't have a new version of X.
It surprises me that any any version of X can tell whether the Emacs
buffer contains tabs or spaces. Emacs handles tabs by displaying
spaces (or at least, it used to); by the time the X server gets
involved, there should be no difference. If Emacs even looks
at the fonts' width for tab, that seems to be a bug.
So if you can find out where Emacs even pays attention to what the
font says or does for a tab character, that should be a start at
debugging this problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-12 13:22 Incorrect TAB width Bertrand Petit
2005-06-13 15:03 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-06-13 19:10 ` Bertrand Petit
2005-06-14 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
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