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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: d.williams@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode, derived modes, and compose-region
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:20:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ft19y6cx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk0qlhbxt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:14:50 -0500)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: d.williams@posteo.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:14:50 -0500
> 
> > If the width of the additional space is known, there's also the :width
> > display property.
> 
> Indeed, there's `:width` but in the case under discussion the desired
> with of the space is something like `1 - width-of-previous-char`, IOW
> something ELisp can't know when it puts the text property.

Yes, it can: shr.el uses these capabilities.

> I think it would take something like a `width` property that is
> non-replacing (i.e. can be applied to non-spaces and doesn't hide the
> text to which it's applied).

Yes, that's what I had in mind in my other message.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-05 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 21:33 prettify-symbols-mode, derived modes, and compose-region D
2021-03-04 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05  0:22   ` D
2021-03-05  2:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-05  3:20       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-05  7:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05  7:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 15:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-05 15:20           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-05 15:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-05 15:57               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-05  7:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 14:05       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-03-05 21:24       ` D
2021-03-06  9:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 10:43           ` D
2021-03-06 10:59             ` Eli Zaretskii

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