Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:25:15 -0400
> 
> >> Or rather, yes that's what it would boil down to in the redisplay, but
> >> in terms of resulting behavior we'd have bugs whenever the property span
> >> gets split into several spans.
> >
> > If this is a danger, then this feature is not workable at all for
> > buffer text.
> 
> That's why I was suggesting a representation where you don't put
> a property on the whole span but only at the beginning and at the end.

That's not the difficulty I had in mind, so your suggestion doesn't
clear the path towards a solution.

The problem is that if the run of text which needs to be "padded" this
way can be split between lines, the problem becomes undefined.