From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:42:55 -0600 Message-ID: <86lgf0fkao.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <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> <838tb5rxoe.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf5q73p.fsf@gnu.org> <4742f0ae-86b5-48f9-4601-4dbba9e6380d@gmail.com> <83bmfzreaq.fsf@gnu.org> <838tb2ptpw.fsf@gnu.org> <2ca6f8cf-96f6-9caf-d72b-739a8f9cc28d@cs.ucla.edu> <83lgf1odfl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520667668 19583 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2018 07:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:41:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 08:41:04 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 1euZ7n-00050d-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZ9q-0002hx-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZ9k-0002ho-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZ9h-0001IW-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp113.ord1d.emailsrvr.com ([184.106.54.113]:58056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZ9h-0001HF-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:43:01 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp23.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp23.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C261120084 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:42:58 -0500 (EST) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp23.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id 913D320083 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:42:58 -0500 (EST) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:25 (trex/5.7.12); Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:42:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83lgf1odfl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:34:06 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 184.106.54.113 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:223570 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Paul Eggert > >> Programming in variable-width fonts makes more-efficient use of valuable >> screen real estate, so it's worth doing when it works reasonably well, >> as it often would if Emacs supported it better. > > Agreed. > > Do people think adding a per-buffer space-width variable would be a > good step in this direction? It should be easy to add, I think. +1 -- -- Stephe