Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/05/2018 05:06 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
> In variable-pitch mode, each new indentation level has a slightly-different 
> width, instead of a regular progression of 4 spaces (in Python) and 2 spaces 
> (in Elisp) at each level.

That's fine. Although it's only a small thing, to me it's even a small 
plus, as having every indent level be the same number of pixels 
unnaturally focuses the reader on a distracting regularity that is not 
intrinsic to the code.

> Beyond this, there's the problem of inline line-up spaces.

Yes, for ASCII art I doubt whether any simple automated heuristic would 
work unaided. ASCII art is typically ugly and hard-to-read even in a 
fixed-width font, so it's not much of a loss if it's rendered poorly. If 
there's really a need for it I suppose we could let users hint to Emacs 
to switch to a fixed-width font just for the art; that'd be good enough.