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Re: Enclosing text in a box
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Enclosing text in a box |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:47:08 +0200 |
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:11:04 +0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> > reliable, because there are characters of different width. It is
> > better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
>
> The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?
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Eli Zaretskii <=
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