From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Split `simple.el'? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:07:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5f1e960c-483f-4902-b4c2-b7a4ca3b04f4@default> <10c96362-297f-db97-d4a9-da3d66d4dd34@cs.ucla.edu> <83in974gwf.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi2j2hp4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522965939 27982 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2018 22:05:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 22:05:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 00:05:35 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 1f4D0h-0007Aj-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4D2m-0002Kl-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4D2f-0002KV-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4D2a-0003bs-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44870 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4D2Z-0003bP-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f4D0S-0006rb-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:05:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:XNc3BbMLf7Eu9eJMaX539FVv5IM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:224378 Archived-At: > `current-column' "is calculated by adding together the widths > of all the displayed representations of the character between > the start of the previous line and point (e.g., control > characters will have a width of 2 or 4, tabs will have a > variable width)." This could be considered a bug: maybe `current-column` shouldn't need to lookup any font information (after all, it doesn't actually give pixel-precise information). Stefan