Subject: Re: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:49:35 -0500

> If Emacs had a version of align-to that really aligned to the specified
> pixel position, even if the text displayed there is wider than that
> position, then that would be nice.

Indeed, I already mentioned this need for the redisplay to provide
a feature that makes it truncate data for columns (as in
tabulated-list-mode).

        Stefan