From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:16:51 +0200 Message-ID: <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520353348 6774 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 16:22:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 17:22:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etFLq-0007ny-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:22:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFNt-0006kH-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:24:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFGy-0000mj-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFGv-0000hC-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFGv-0000h1-81; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1846 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etFGu-0006Vx-K2; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:17:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:30:24 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223339 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:30:24 -0800 > > Yes, for ASCII art I doubt whether any simple automated heuristic would > work unaided. ASCII art is typically ugly and hard-to-read even in a > fixed-width font, so it's not much of a loss if it's rendered poorly. If > there's really a need for it I suppose we could let users hint to Emacs > to switch to a fixed-width font just for the art; that'd be good enough. We could have an interactive alignment feature, whereby the user could move a character at pixel resolution, until it aligns to the user's liking. The implementation would modify the :align-to attribute of the display property we put on whitespace before that character.