From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:00:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83ina3u2dt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <838tb5rxoe.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf5q73p.fsf@gnu.org> <4742f0ae-86b5-48f9-4601-4dbba9e6380d@gmail.com> <83bmfzreaq.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf3przh.fsf@gnu.org> <42d0c18b-8d14-bfe2-8f09-112787e8b0b4@gmail.com> <83zi3io9tr.fsf@gnu.org> <859ec725-acc3-22e4-ca26-28108c3e5e26@gmail.com> <83sh9ao086.fsf@gnu.org> <83muzhodkx.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2otumg6.fsf@gnu.org> <015c9878-2955-5ef9-cb05-a066b59c085f@cs.ucla.edu> <83o9jxueu5.fsf@gnu.org> <83ina4uysg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520711939 30203 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2018 19:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 19:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 20:58:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eukdq-0007kV-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 20:58:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eukfs-0005EN-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34209) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eukfh-0005C3-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eukfe-0002q9-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eukfe-0002q5-Kx; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3932 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eukfe-00039U-2w; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:00:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from James Cloos on Sat, 10 Mar 2018 14:48:33 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223594 Archived-At: > From: James Cloos > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 14:48:33 -0500 > > >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > EZ> Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "fixed width". You did mean > EZ> fixed width in pixels, yes? If not, then what did you mean? > > Yes. By fixed-width I mean the font the buffer would use were variable- > pitch-mode not in effect. Then I really don't understand why you think it's a good start. I think it's a step in the wrong direction, because it will make things worse than they are now: what we have now makes sure the initial whitespace changes in sync on all lines of the buffer, so that the first non-whitespace characters on each line stay aligned.