From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wgTfcymOhU7rCftQ1zMTdUMglT5Gbj2_vm_nlnMAQAaRuFJGvKWFwzNmZBx6mwbzXJ4xN8MuLJSLBKc-orSqkreBpL0DZ4TKfHdlF9wAORo=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y1sbez2r.fsf@gnu.org>
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 2:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Yuri Khan yuri.v.khan@gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:11:04 +0700
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
> >
> > > Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> > > reliable, because there are characters of different width. It is
> > > better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
> >
> > The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> > thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> > what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
>
>
> Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?
The premise seems to be that "string-width" returns it. I would like to
have the ability to pass unicode characters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-16 12:47 Enclosing text in a box Heime
2022-11-16 13:07 ` Heime
2022-11-16 13:34 ` Alexis Roda
2022-11-16 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:11 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 14:20 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:51 ` Heime [this message]
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 16:48 ` Heime
2022-11-16 16:53 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 19:35 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:01 ` Heime
2022-11-16 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 15:10 ` tomas
2022-11-18 19:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 15:06 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 16:12 ` tomas
2022-11-16 16:43 ` Heime
2022-11-17 6:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-17 6:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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