From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 12067@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:49:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ipd7gu2y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B556DCC73CEA4CD496D2E4DB4627B1CC@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <12067@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:10:50 -0700
>
> > If we care about this issue, we could perhaps expand TABs into the
> > appropriate number of spaces, before passing the menu items to the
> > toolkit.
>
> I thought of that, but menu items are often realized using proportional fonts.
>
> What is really needed, I guess, is the equivalent of `move-to-column'.
move-to-column won't help, as it doesn't take pixel width of each
character into account.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-29 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 6:49 bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars Drew Adams
2012-07-27 14:53 ` Jason Rumney
2012-07-27 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-27 16:19 ` Jason Rumney
2012-07-27 16:33 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-27 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-27 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-27 20:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-07-28 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-28 12:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-07-28 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-28 20:10 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-29 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-09 3:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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