Re: highlight-indent-guides in display engine

[Joost Kremers]

On Sun, Jul 14 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Joost Kremers <address@hidden>
> > Just my opinion, but from a user's perspective it might seem 
> > rather strange that a feature that Emacs supports out of the 
> > box 
> > does *not* work with Lisp. With any other editor I might think 
> > "oh 
> > well", but Emacs *is* Lisp.
>
> So you are saying that we should not provide this as a built-in
> feature unless we also support dynamic indentation that doesn't 
> heed
> to tab stops and tab-width?

No, it's probably better to provide this feature for some 
languages than not to provide it at all. I'm just saying that that 
will raise some eyebrows in the future and may lead to some 
surprised questions on the relevant fora. So perhaps some thought 
about how it might (eventually) be implemented for Lisp may be in 
order. (Perhaps as a completely separate package written in Lisp, 
or perhaps with some additional Lisp code that uses the underlying 
functionality in the C code? I have no idea what's feasible.)



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