From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fill column indicator functionality Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:13:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190309132207.w2ho3j6p5on6fyzw@Ergus> <838sxo87gc.fsf@gnu.org> <20190311104814.kp2nv6arv47hcykz@Ergus> <83y35l4ee0.fsf@gnu.org> <20190312152928.73o4b5fk4paz7wm5@Ergus> <834l883w15.fsf@gnu.org> <20190312192017.fkfd4h5gsbdue5q3@Ergus> <83imwm3fxf.fsf@gnu.org> <20190313200225.dpqrw7xthkj47fqw@Ergus> <83bm2e35a1.fsf@gnu.org> <20190314030224.l5zseslncw3xc5ox@Ergus> <835zsm2c2s.fsf@gnu.org> <303612d8-e691-f753-84c9-f462d88262b6@gmail.com> <83d0ms1to4.fsf@gnu.org> <234b0a33-65e5-5170-47ce-c0eaab762aef@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="33484"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" 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 Fri Mar 15 16:27:24 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h4ojz-0008a0-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h4ojy-0004JA-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h4oY8-00042T-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h4oY7-0007yw-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34224 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h4oY6-0007xf-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h4oY2-00124v-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:15:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:TSWI+mDDK4JCE77Gy+khcArJo80= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:234169 Archived-At: > This was actually going to be my follow-up question :) I see lines of > variable height in many of most of my Emacs mode, through a combination of > factors: > > - Font switches due to symbols picked by prettify-symbols-mode not being > available in my main programming font > - Variable-pitch fonts being used by AucTeX for section and paragraph titles > - Varying font sizes to indicate nesting depth in Org-mode > - Changing line spacing to separate top-level items in org-mode I also see such variations due to my use of fonts instead of colors for font-lock highlighting: I use different fonts for the keyword-face and the doc-face. I try to choose them such that they take up exactly the same number of pixels as my default font, but it's a pretty delicate/brittle business. So I agree it's a case we should try and handle "correctly". Stefan