Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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