From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:09:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <86578165-1b41-e75c-7180-84d8edefc44b@grinta.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520287658 4712 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 22:07:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:07:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniele Nicolodi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 23:07:34 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 1esyGO-0007KX-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:07:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyIR-0000ml-6q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyIK-0000mI-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyIH-0001TU-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyIH-0001TO-7g; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:39051) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1esyIG-0006yP-W2; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2E4211C8; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:09:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:09:16 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E38297E539; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:09:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <86578165-1b41-e75c-7180-84d8edefc44b@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:51:09 -0700") Mail-Followup-To: Daniele Nicolodi , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:223303 Archived-At: >>>>> "DN" == Daniele Nicolodi writes: DN> Personally, I find that better support for display with variable width DN> fonts will not improve my use of Emacs. What would improve my user DN> experience would be improvements to the display engine that will allow a DN> better document viewing capabilities in something like pdf-tools (like DN> continuous scrolling). I have to agree with Daniele here. I don't use Emacs for writing such documents, nor would having variable width support by itself grant all the other features such users have come to expect from modern Word Processors. Time spent on a better GC could help the *overall* user experience, in the form of generally better latency, even if no one would be able to point to the GC as the reason for their better experience with Emacs. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2