Re: wrapping behavior
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Vladimir> Why should we read monospaced text?
So change the default font, already.
OTOH, a lot of code uses units of character cells, which isn't really
meaningful for a proportional font. XEmacs support for proportional
fonts could certainly be improved, IMHO (although this isn't really an
issue for me personally; the only time that font width issues cause me
any problems are non-Latin1 characters messing up vm-summary-mode
buffers).
Vladimir> Isn't that just a holdover from ASR-33 teletype
Vladimir> machines, just like 80x24 is?
No. As far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as "monospaced
text." Text is a stream of characters. How you choose to format and
display that may be monospaced or proportional, bidirectional or
vertical.
Well, there is such a thing as text which *should* be displayed in a
monospaced font, e.g. the output from "ls -l", ps, netstat, od etc,
ASCII-art, "screen dumps" from curses programs. While the use of
proportionally-spaced text may be increasing, monospaced text is
definitely here to stay.
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>