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: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:58:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfgc50gb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9ftf6n9.fsf@gnu.org> <835z7qfp6h.fsf@gnu.org> <87ft6lgw5y.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <1F8F3522-1E6C-40A3-B61A-B9B84FC0AD18@gnu.org> <87blh9gthg.fsf@gnus.org> <87tuv1f2y9.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8l9f1dl.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15866"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 16:04:18 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 1kRbxR-00040W-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47588 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRbxQ-0001E1-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRbrb-0005vs-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRbra-00036L-Mb; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1399 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kRbrV-0005Da-8Y; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:58:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o8l9f1dl.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:28:06 +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:257365 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:28:06 +0200 > > This reminds me, by the way... I forget if this has been discussed > before or not, but in these cases it'd be handy to have a text property > like, say, (propertize "foo" :min-width 5) (or :min-width (50)), and > have the display engine compute how much space to add to the end. > > Would that be much work to add? Let's put it this way: if there's a simple way of adding this, I cannot think of it. Btw, if there were such a property, how would you calculate the value to put there?