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: on helm substantial differences Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:58:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6v3p463.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lfezd8r0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87k0uj58ub.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87lfey28us.fsf@tcd.ie> <87ft56h6sr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2iybe27.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <873614ido7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83tutkz1ea.fsf@gnu.org> <83sg94z0ku.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh3aqxa7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83sg92xdz6.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg914wlp.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83lfetxvuv.fsf@gnu.org> <87blfp2luy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83im9wwyae.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ohepvu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83im9tsad9.fsf@gnu.org> <87360x8cxx.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <831rghrywi.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1oh41jv.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83r1ogqljc.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ofjii1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30390"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, bugs@gnu.support, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 09:59:08 2020 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 1kiZas-0007mD-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:59:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiZar-0000u2-GP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiZaN-0000Su-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:58:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiZaK-0003Ui-Gn; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4843 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kiZaI-0004y9-1o; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:58:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r1ofjii1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:45:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:259855 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: spacibba@aol.com, bugs@gnu.support, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, rudalics@gmx.at, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:45:10 +0200 > > > Ah, okay. Would it work to change read-char-by-name to generate > > strings "character1 TAB name1" and "character2 TAB name2", and then > > make completion--insert-strings to produce a suitably calculated > > (SPC with :align-to) separator between them? Then all you'd need to > > do is set tab-width in the completions buffer. > > Thanks, the suggested solution works well. This screenshot demonstrates > that spacing between a character and its name is the same in the first column > and in the second column: LGTM, thanks.