Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> We also have to make sure only to do this in source code and
not in
>> text mode.
WMP> I disagree - there are plenty of instances where I want things to align in
WMP> text mode. Granted, I do write most of my documentation on HTML now, but
WMP> having nicely aligned tables of figures in email or plain text files can be
WMP> very useful. :)
Hmmm. XEmacs would have to VERY smart to do this right. <== like
ignore those two spaces at the beginning of this non-sentence.
Why don't have mode-specific functions for this?
C-mode knows perfectly well that it's likely that there should be
alignment between types and variable names, text-mode knows that there
shouldn't be alignmnent for "[a-z]\. [a-z]". Etc.
A function that tries to Do The Right Thing everywhere won't DTRT
anywhere.
Improvements on the font situation would be real nice, the defaults on
my redhat linux box are very ugly. (Like, italic faces use much larger
fonts than other faces.)