RE: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs

[Drew Adams]

>   > But all of that is only about how the text appears inside Emacs.
>   > What about copying text and pasting it into other applications?
> 
> This is am important area for work.  The first question
> is to figure out what behavior is right.
> 
> Would you like to work on that?

Not I, but I hope that those who design the new treatment
of indentation and alignment think about this aspect too.

> It would be useful to look at what happens when copying
> text in and out of LibreOffice, and between two windows
> of LibreOffice.  That could give an idea of what we
> would want Emacs to do, at least in modes for documents.
> 
> We might want to do different things in modes for software.