From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 14:53:02 -0800 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520290341 7811 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 22:52:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:52:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 To: Paul Eggert , =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=c3=a9ment_Pit-Claudel?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 23:52:16 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 1esyxj-0000SS-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:52:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyzm-0005Ca-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyyo-0004cZ-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyyk-0008Eh-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:43630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esyyk-0008EL-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:53:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject; bh=0iF4BdYqC3ayYx/BElVR8PibI570wdS0m574lqwVFSs=; b=OJ90jJVayImlw8azdqv4M5LKptgvUnxOBK/akBwD+XHPX2dCr8JWPr8OGJVMZF4XfBjS4pE/ruzBWI1A+GtawMj46Flh2hIaOxcTs6smJmq00tejexTOhwYMLRj9+5HMmlY+3uHLY0sfxp7cGqV/nukn8t/rCa29Tl2n0//ppcLtEjtKhmr8VleJ5Lg2Cf3WyI+TJCUYRGYMprXu5q/PvdC+9i6o/Obr8hr2vqPcLW1BO7d1CEhl+jEA/79BfjUlXiymyTfMRn1KklqVsBLWvws4CWEFuZ2QzHL1G76pFZq7jZzDbTGKGtEmbRZ5SjJ//9KAB6wAbUvHlVpXoVMmCA==; Original-Received: from [172.92.145.124] (helo=[192.168.86.27]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1esyyi-0006Qb-TF; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:53:08 -0800 In-Reply-To: <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 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:223305 Archived-At: On 03/05/2018 02:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/05/2018 12:28 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote: >> Applying this strategy to all lines doesn't work, unfortunately: it >> indents the `pr ()' and `printf (' lines differently, because the `in' >> of `int main' and the `vo' of `void' occupy different widths. > > True, but that's a feature not a defect. The code is easier to read if > every region is indented individually, as opposed to using exactly the > same indenting everywhere in the buffer. In non-lineup styles (e.g., the Linux kernel), different blocks with the same notional indentation actually having different offsets from the left margin would be very unusual.