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: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:24:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83im9wwyae.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40778"; 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 Mon Nov 23 04:25:51 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 1kh2UB-000ATr-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:25:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh2UA-0003RH-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh2T0-0002h8-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kh2Sx-0006As-Rk; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1353 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kh2Su-00078c-JL; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:24:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87blfp2luy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:11:01 +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:259662 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: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:11:01 +0200 > > > There is: font-get-glyphs. But I'd recommend to just use a TAB of a > > suitable width instead of dealing with the complexity that > > font-get-glyphs requires. > > I can't find a suitable width for TAB: 5 makes a too wide gap between > a character and its name, and with 4 some characters are misaligned. Then I think we should just use 5. > But despite the complexity of font-get-glyphs, is it reasonably fast? I cannot answer that, you will have to try and see. Whether the speed is reasonable depends on what the rest of the application does.