GNU bug report logs - #73463
[PATCH] Align columns with wide characters properly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Thomas Voss" <mail <at> thomasvoss.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Thomas Voss" <mail <at> thomasvoss.com>
To: 73463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73463: [PATCH] Align columns with wide characters properly
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:23:29 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi all,

For a while I’ve been bugged by some behaviour in Which-Key.  My font of
choice is Iosevka — a font that is quite popular — and it chooses to make
the ellipsis character 2-columns wide.  This is typically not a problem,
but it causes Which-Key columns to appear misaligned as it truncates long
descriptions with the ellipsis by default when the user configures it to
use Unicode (and I rather enjoy the ellipsis).

This happens despite the following being in my init.el:

    (set-char-table-range char-width-table ?… 2)

After further investigation, this appears to be due to a simple usage of
‘length’ instead of ‘string-width’.  The following trivial patch attached
to this email seems to have solved this issue.

-- 
— Thomas

[0001-Align-columns-with-wide-characters-properly.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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