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#24510
25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `
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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:05:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: moreinfo
Found in versions 25.1, 24.5
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #69 received at 24510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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On 2016-09-24 13:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I find it hard to believe you
> are saying that we should switch from Courier New to MingLiu as the
> default font: that'd be absurd.
It doesn't feel more more absurd than using Courier New in the first place, frankly. But sorry for diverting the thread. I don't use Emacs on Windows, so I don't really care about good defaults there.
> Emacs supports non-programming applications as well, not just
> programming modes. In fact, the trigger for this discussion was Info,
> a non-programming mode very close to Text mode.
Why does info use a monospace font?
>>> One reason is that Emacs has a wider range of different
>>> applications, where being able to support as many languages and
>>> scripts as possible is more important than in Studio or even Vim.
>>> E.g., at least some of the editors you mention are never used as
>>> email/news clients or Web browsers, where the ability to support as
>>> many scripts as possible is important.
>>
>> Do many of these applications require a monospace font?
>
> We use a monospaced font for the default face because it suits well
> both programming and non-programming modes, and because aligning text
> is much easier with such a font. Text alignment is important in modes
> that present summaries in tabular form, like modes that show listing
> of buffers, email summaries, Dired, Proced, etc.
Doesn't we the special 'space' display property make it possible to properly align variable-width fonts?
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