From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: min-width display property, but with padding at the start
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:21:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZsSKLk9R4DprcNAC@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ikvvwgjs.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 02:59:51PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
[...]
> > Is there a way to achieve this with display properties?
>
> Why do you need display properties? What's wrong with
>
> (format "%5s" THE-STRING)
This was my "inner question", too. Then I thought that some folks might
like to use proportional fonts (yeah, Computer Modern has explicit fixed
width for numerals, but not everyone's as wise as DEK ;-)
Not that I would allow a proportional font near my Emacs, ever...
Cheers
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-19 20:53 min-width display property, but with padding at the start Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 12:09 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 13:42 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 14:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-20 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 14:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-20 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 18:33 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-20 19:31 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-08-20 19:46 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-20 12:21 ` tomas [this message]
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