Re: Variable pitch text filling

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Hm...  Oh, OK, I see what you mean now.  Yes, I think that would work
>> fine, but it's semantically slightly odd to have these width spec work
>> differently than the other width specs.
>
> Well, the spec will have a different name, and the documentation will
> explain what that means.

Consistency is also a plus...

Your definition of "normal character width" is clearly superior to what
we have in Emacs today, though, so I wonder whether we could change
that.  That is, today if you say `display (space 2)' you get a multiple
of the frame column width.  We could change that to be the ASCII font
width of the current face instead, like what you suggested for this new
feature.

This would be incompatible, but I doubt it'd break anything much in
practice.

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