Re: Variable pitch text filling

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:03:36 -0800
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
>  Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> When I test it it seems CJK characters are not aligned when first
> displayed, but are aligned after the cursor goes over them.

You mean, you do

  M-: (setq align-columns-display t) RET

and then you visit a file with CJK characters, say etc/HELLO, and
initially you don't see the characters aligned in columns?

> Opening a directory, I first see
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> Where there is no space inserted between CJK characters (the spaces seems to 
> be accumulated at the end of consecutive CJK characters, in this case before 
> the period). If I place my cursor on one CJK character, I see
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> Emacs adds spaces after the character under point, but the space obstructs 
> the character after. If I hold on C-f and go over every character, their 
> alignment are fixed:
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> Highlighting the region puts them back:

Does this happen only in Dired, or also in etc/HELLO, and in any other
situation?