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: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:49:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83r2oxqelu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520358456 18420 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 17:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 18:47:31 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 1etGgK-0002zB-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:47:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGiM-0002HQ-Ux for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGiA-0002FS-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGi7-00009O-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52106) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etGi7-00009J-Bw; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2028 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etGi6-0007g8-P3; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:49:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:38:28 -0800) 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:223352 Archived-At: > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:38:28 -0800 > > > We could have an interactive alignment feature, whereby the user could > > move a character at pixel resolution, until it aligns to the user's > > liking. The implementation would modify the :align-to attribute of > > the display property we put on whitespace before that character. > > How would you serialize the result? You mean, save it to a disk file? I think we should insert the number of blanks to align stuff with fixed-pitch font, so that it looks well with those fonts. If we want to preserve the display properties across sessions, we could use enriched-text-mode, I think.