From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tab widths with a remapped default face
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:53:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy75j57fi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo4p87uipz.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:26:48 +0900")
> Using the TAB face for tab-width calculation seems much likely to
> preserve the local integrity of indentation (using the default face
> means that mixed space and tab indentation will often not be the same as
> space-only indentation). It seems a bit more intuitive to me as well.
> However, if there is a significant case where using the default face for
> calculations is better, it would be good to know it, but it seems a bit
> silly to make decisions based on vague recollections.
I think the issue was vertical alignment of elements on different lines,
using different faces. E.g. a first (header) line in one face,
followed by various lines in some other face.
OTOH, you can usually add a `default' face to the TABs to impose the use
of a uniform tab size, so maybe it's not a real problem.
Maybe Gerd remembers?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-06 5:19 tab widths with a remapped default face Miles Bader
2008-06-06 5:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06 7:26 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-06 7:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-06 19:34 ` Gerd Möllmann
2008-06-06 8:08 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-06 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06 21:41 ` Miles Bader
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