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: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:51:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83im9tsad9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnymda5g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87ima5he8j.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtzfzt9a.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24494"; 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 Wed Nov 25 16:52:37 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 1khx5x-0006GF-AV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:52:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56966 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khx5w-0001h7-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khx4v-0001EX-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khx4s-0002Ki-6W; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4545 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1khx4r-00062S-Dr; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:51:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r1ohepvu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:10:05 +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:259787 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: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:10:05 +0200 > > > Then I think we should just use 5. > > tab-width=5 doesn't help to align characters in the second column > when completions are displayed in two columns. > > To align the second column, 'completion--insert-strings' > inserts " \t" with `(display (space :align-to ,column)). > > So when completions use \t to separate a character from its name, > then the two-column layout schematically looks like this: > > character1 \t name1 \t with :align-to character2 \t name2 > > And tab-width doesn't align properly \t between character2 and name2. I don't think I understand why. Maybe the value of :align-to needs tuning? If not, what is the problem here? > It seems font-get-glyphs can't be used because on wide characters it > returns nil: > > (font-get-glyphs (font-at (point)) 0 1 "𒐫") > => [nil] Is this with point on that wide character?