From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:14:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sju4qxvb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwq47ggx.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>
> From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:53:02 +0200
>
> rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Unfortunately, Editors with proportional fonts don't
> >> have indenting and formating algorithms sophisticated enough to render
> >> code like in the later example (that would require even more than
> >> understanding the program!).
> >
> > Well that is (may be?) the current situation. Why cant it change?
>
> Because you would need strong AI to do it right
Not necessarily. In Emacs, we can specify that text be displayed
aligned to a specific width in pixels. See the node "Specified Space"
in the ELisp manual. Perhaps display of programming languages could
use this feature to align program source even with proportional fonts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 16:22 Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Erin Brinkley
2011-03-28 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1301337042.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:58 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-29 2:00 ` rusi
2011-03-29 19:28 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 2:47 ` rusi
2011-03-30 8:33 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 13:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 15:20 ` rusi
2011-03-30 15:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-03-30 19:49 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-30 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1301508895.9824.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 4:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-31 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.13.1301596981.19576.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 19:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-31 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 16:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-30 9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] <mailman.0.1301334352.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:01 ` Xah Lee
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