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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:26:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqp53mw8.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.13.1301596981.19576.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> We do something very similar with fontification.  There's no reason,
> at least not a-priori, that it won't work with alignment.

There's a good reason: fontification does have all the necessary
information in the source file (it does not always make full use of it
because it requires potentially complex parsing, but the info is there).
Whereas for alignment, the info is only in the original coder's head and
needs to be guessed.


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-01 17:26 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
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 [this message]
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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