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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less |
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Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:24:29 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:07:36 +0200
>
> >> > Or maybe we should re-purpose the WIDTH parameter of such formats to
> >> > mean "min-width"?
> >>
> >> Hm... *ponder* I think that perhaps sounds like a complicating
> >> factor. I mean, semantics-wise.
> >
> > I don't think I see the complications. Can you elaborate?
>
> I mean, it would be complicated if we did both. If we just extend
> "%12b" to effectively be :min-width, then that'd be fine, I think.
That is what I intended to propose.
> Unless we want to do pixel-based :min-widths, but that's perhaps not so
> useful...
The idea is to interpret "12" in units of the canonical frame's
character width, and do the calculations in pixels. I think this is
good enough, as I don't envision a need for Lisp programs to fine-tune
the position at pixel granularity.
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, (continued)
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/15
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/16
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Drew Adams, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/12
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/12
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/13
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/11