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Re: Fill column indicator functionality
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Fill column indicator functionality |
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Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:54:41 -0400 |
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On 15/03/2019 10.07, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> What I'm missing?
I this I see what caused the confusion. There are two answers:
- First, at least one of the examples I mentioned involves changes in line
height, not in character width; that's the part I worry most about.
- Second, I believe the 80-character limits is usually intended to serve as a
bound on the width of the text on display (the assumption being that short
lines are easier to read than long ones, and that keeping a limited width makes
it easier to show multiple text fragments side by side). When the text is
monospace, it's natural to express the limit in terms of a number of
characters. When the text is displayed in a variable-pitch font, the natural
equivalent is to express the limit in pixels or em units. IOW, a long lines
indicator still makes sense even for variable-pitch fonts; you just don't want
it to count characters.
Clément.
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, (continued)
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Alp Aker, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/15
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, John Yates, 2019/03/09
- Re: Fill column indicator functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/09