From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41683 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-correct-length vs. string-width Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:25:47 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87advrafgk.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <877kqx704t.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177042 7479 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6296 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 11:26:53 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 11:26:53 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16NBRf-0006CS-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 05:26:31 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Jan 2002 05:26:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA19803 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:26:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6260 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2002 11:26:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6255 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 11:26:08 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (210.23.138.19) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 11:26:08 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [210.23.138.19]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A0A2A814 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:25:52 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C89818211C; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:25:47 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:08:30 +0100") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41683 On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Daniel Pittman 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 -- There is censorship in this country, all right, make no mistake about that, but also make no mistake about its source...While the government will not censor, apparently the networks will. The irreparable damage to the public is all the same. -- Nicholas Johnson, Federal Communications Commissioner, _New York Times_, (April 8, 1969)