Re: GNU Emacs' rect.el
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes in
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> I've never really grokked the concept of "multicolumn characters". We
> already support proportional fonts. Shouldn't Japanese be treated the
> same as anything else?
It's not the same thing. Under normal settings, Japanese characters
display twice as wide as Latin characters.
The question is: which Latin characters? What are "normal settings"
to you? Does this mean that when I change my font (as I do, because
the default one is awful), the twice-as-wide relationship gets lost?
I still see no reason to treat the Japanese glyphs as any different
than other variable-width glyphs.
This means that using a computation like (- (point) (point-at-bol))
to determine indentation is broken.
That computation is broken in the world of variable-width characters
anyway.