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30.0.50; [PATCH] Support variable-width text in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 71605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71605: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Support variable-width text in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:53:33 -0700

On 6/19/2024 4:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If both the first line of the paragraph and the rest are aligned on
> that width, they will all line up.  IOW, the idea is to make the text
> of all the lines :align-to to the same column number, like this:
> 
>    * some text
>      some other text
> 
> Then you don't care about the actual pixel width of "* ".

Just so I'm sure I understand this: the idea is that the buffer's 
contents are "* some text some other text" and then we set the :align-to 
property on "some text some other text" so that the result is displayed 
like this?

     +---- Here is the align-to column
     v
  * _some text
  ___some other text

The underscores represent the space added by :align-to. In practice, the 
first line might not have any extra space from :align-to, but the 
pixel-width of "* " could be less than 2 * <canonical character width> 
for variable-pitch fonts.

I think that would work, provided :align-to were fixed so that it could 
handle wrapping again. (And so long as we're ok with there being a bit 
of extra space after the first-line prefix when using some fonts, but I 
don't see why that would be an issue.)

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