From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:35:50 -0500 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520354208 6702 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 16:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:36:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 17:36:44 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 1etFZo-0007yp-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:36:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFbr-0001Ao-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFZh-0000LI-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFZc-0003vs-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:36:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59321 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFZc-0003vc-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:36:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etFXL-0006dS-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:33:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:XzdpUjDz8xH7413iS3qpQHtnOLo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:223340 Archived-At: > I don't know of a good solution to this problem: in general, there's not > enough information to distinguish 'indentation' spaces (the two spaces > before `printf (', `pr ()', and `return 0') and 'line-up' spaces (the spaces > before `char ()'). Indeed, you'd need to ask the indenter for the why this particular was chosen (where the answer will usually be of the form "indentation = OFFSET + column_of_position POS"). Of course, the additional problem is that the indenter is not necessarily Emacs's indent-line-function. Stefan