From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using proportional fonts in Gnus Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:43:28 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87wtdpmbbn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145256240 9991 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 06:44:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 17 08:43:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVNSj-0004cm-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVNSj-0003p1-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVNST-0003oT-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVNSQ-0003ni-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVNSQ-0003ne-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVNSz-0004Yg-AV; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-11-227.inter.net.il [80.230.11.227]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DZM95148 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:43:25 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <87wtdpmbbn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:59:08 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52943 Archived-At: > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Miles Bader > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:59:08 +0900 > Posted-To: gnu.emacs.gnus > > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > Nope. Emacs' support for proportional fonts is still pretty > > immature. > > It's interesting to consider how one might do this in an "Emacsy" > manner convenient for elisp programmers. > > For instance a "super tab" text property saying "align to colum N (or > leave M units of whitespace if already there)"; maybe some degree of > indirection would be useful so one need not rewrite the buffer text to > change N dynamically. I don't see the original message anywhere in this list, so perhaps I misunderstand the issue. But if I do understand it, then there're no columns when proportional fonts are used.