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From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: gnus-correct-length vs. string-width
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:25:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87advrafgk.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3g05kdblt.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:08:30 +0100")

On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> 
>> (format "%-10s" ...) differs on character vs byte width between
>> XEmacs and GNU Emacs. This means that the "correct" width is lost
>> when doing cut operations on wide characters in the summary buffer...
> 
> Ah, right; that was it.
> 
> But we could alias those functions to the built-in functions on
> Emacsen that give us the results we want.

[...]

> So how about if we just default `gnus-use-correct-string-widths' to
> `(featurep 'xemacs)'?

Fine by me. I suggest keeping it active by default, though, for that
branch.

        Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-06 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-28 14:26 Jesper Harder
2001-12-28 17:22 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-12-28 23:24   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-05  7:00     ` Daniel Pittman
2002-01-05 16:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 11:25         ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2001-12-30  1:32   ` Jesper Harder

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