GNU bug report logs - #12067
24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:58:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 12067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:49:25 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: <12067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:10:50 -0700
> 
> > If we care about this issue, we could perhaps expand TABs into the
> > appropriate number of spaces, before passing the menu items to the
> > toolkit.
> 
> I thought of that, but menu items are often realized using proportional fonts.
> 
> What is really needed, I guess, is the equivalent of `move-to-column'.

move-to-column won't help, as it doesn't take pixel width of each
character into account.
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