Re: [RFC] Add :invisible face attribute

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm just brainstorming here, but could Org use a display spec with 
> specified spaces[1] to make Emacs render a space of the appropriate 
> width? That requires a bit of computation, but it's how 
> 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode' and SHR handle (roughly) similar sorts of things.

If one uses display spec, editing the text underneath will become
tricky. Org mode is first and foremost a text format and should remain
editable using normal text editing commands.

Of course, third-party packages are free to make such visual changes, if
they believe that they constitute an improvement.

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