Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/06/2018 12:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We have indentation
> already; its only problem is that it doesn't work well with variable
> pitch fonts.

As I understood it, Clément wrote a quick-and-dirty algorithm to 
simulate better indentation with variable-width fonts. That is, it 
wasn't intended to be something that should go into Emacs, only as a way 
to see what the the user would see if we changed Emacs's display of 
indentation to be along the suggested lines. Unless I'm 
misunderstanding, his work provided a simple proof-of-concept that a 
relatively-inexpensive way of improving indentation would significantly 
improve display with variable-width fonts.