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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:21:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83muzlq7jj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f078cc98-b584-470b-acd9-6f450f4ff9ba@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:21:47 -0800 (PST))

> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:21:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> Could we, for example, (optionally) affect copy or paste
> operations, to automatically try to compensate by inserting
> the (more or less) right number of SPC chars of the
> variable-width font (of the first non-whitespace char on the
> line)?

That shouldn't be needed, because those whitespace characters should
be there in the first place.  The display features should be applied
on top of that, not instead of that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-06 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-06 18:21 Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs Drew Adams
2018-03-06 19:09 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 19:52   ` Drew Adams
2018-03-06 22:15     ` Drew Adams
2018-03-07  6:28       ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-06 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-06 20:56 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-06 21:31   ` Drew Adams

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