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bug#50272: describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#50272: describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about width |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:20:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> You mean, you'd like to see which characters are "double-width"? We
> could add that, but on GUI frames that would just confuse, because
> those "double-width" characters more often than not take less than two
> full columns, especially if you happen to use variable-pitch font for
> such exotic characters (something that happens quite a lot).
>
> The width information is only more-or-less accurate on text-mode
> terminals. I wonder how to avoid confusing users with this.
>
> Does anyone have ideas?
We could have the command only mention the double-width-ness on
terminals?
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