Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/08/2018 05:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes, using variable-pitch fonts in code where indentation is important
> has its disadvantages, and always will.  Any solution will have the
> same issues, just under different use cases and situations.  That's
> why this is not the main use case

Although it has disadvantages, it shouldn't be that hard to do it better 
than Emacs does it now (along the lines that Clément prototyped), and if 
Emacs had these improvements the benefits of variable-pitch fonts would 
outweigh the costs in many practical programming applications. 
Programming in variable-width fonts makes more-efficient use of valuable 
screen real estate, so it's worth doing when it works reasonably well, 
as it often would if Emacs supported it better.