Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103444: * lisp/facemenu.el (list-colors-display): Use with-help-window (Bug#8048).

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> One possibility is to improve the redisplay engine to provide a way to
>> specify a stretch glyph that stretches as far as possible.
>
> I'm not following your line of thought -- is this about aligning
> display of text "nicely" for the current window width?  If so, why a
> display property whose value is like `(space :align-to POS)' or maybe
> `(space :width WIDTH)' will not do this job?

Because POS and WIDTH have to be specified.  I'm thinking of something
like `(space :width maximum)', i.e. a way to specify a stretch glyph
that's exactly wide enough to align the end of the current line with the
right edge of the text area.

Then the redisplay engine would be able to DTRT when the buffer is shown
in any window.