From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals Date: 29 Sep 2003 14:02:18 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2914-Sat27Sep2003130207+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <200309271707.h8RH73109041@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <1438-Sat27Sep2003203832+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <200309271951.h8RJp3e09280@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <7105-Sun28Sep2003103537+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <86n0cpw3na.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org> <86oex3ykm6.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064841689 30679 80.91.224.253 (29 Sep 2003 13:21:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 15:21:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3xxs-0001ZQ-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3xxs-0001uX-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3xT1-0004Bb-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3xSM-0004B9-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:48:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3xRp-00044u-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.226.11.131] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 1A3wjm-0005V2-FX; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8TC2RBY003198 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h8TC2I2v003194; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:02:19 +0200 Original-To: gerd.moellmann@t-online.de (Gerd Moellmann) In-Reply-To: <86oex3ykm6.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org> Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16763 gerd.moellmann@t-online.de (Gerd Moellmann) writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > I didn't implement `space' for ttys, AFAIR because ttys don't > > have the necessary facilities to implement `space' fully. > > > > Do you mean that they cannot do fractional spacing? > > Yes, fractional spacing and height changes. Well, neither can GUIs. They have to snap to a pixel grid. The problem with ttys is the same, it is just that the grid is coarser. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum