From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 91418d27e9: Add new functions for computing character metrics for windows Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:48:46 +0300 Message-ID: <837d768ywx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <165123811050.20687.5215165731843845332@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220429131511.9BD62C01683@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87v8usc7wz.fsf@gnus.org> <83czgzacfk.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilqq4yfc.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23898"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, malsburg@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 30 16:07:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nknl1-0005wS-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:07:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47130 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nknl0-0001V3-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2022 10:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nknSl-0007x7-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nknSk-0000Iw-E3; Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:48:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=UsZbHExdlwZ4XxcML3L9XgUGIe2z342AuqB4ucHtvhI=; b=N/9J3Mx9JOP8 YpOLWBchFC8naEu9nZhJs23InbmJCLXl/rOMOo0nUiMND+ISua/tWQXJgouO7VJNW0usWBW0H6mf5 NqlM3PsQY0/vFwXrhWzXyOB3pTD2bz+Ad4L95kcLasIUADbYIpL9emaA3rt14x8SE1tvyGfGmqfs4 nIwWwhT1qY82C1n6JCjXulTGInC73hlErdyypDnt6bct+vi64PStNV2vab0zSrby3g+KQr3nVSTVX Do9uzSzWYxYWmcWeWvgfqFaZ+pHAeEzBis/k3oCDvTNR15KFBFToTO+ptFH2xBq4UQGT6GzCRNgEq Qwu4BVp8MNO3Gwh/3hYOng==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1936 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nknSj-00057w-TF; Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:48:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:33:58 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:289056 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , malsburg@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:33:58 -0400 > > But admittedly, in most cases you can use > `window-max-characters-per-line only` as a heuristic because of the > effect of proportional fonts What else can you do when proportional fonts are used, except account fro the average width? > compositions Irrelevant. The function says how many character cells are available for displaying text, not how many codepoints can be squeezed there. > and faces The function accepts FACE as the argument. So this is accounted for. (And I wonder why this sudden crusade against this function.)