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RE: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs |
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Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) |
> > But all of that is only about how the text appears inside Emacs.
> > What about copying text and pasting it into other applications?
>
> This is am important area for work. The first question
> is to figure out what behavior is right.
>
> Would you like to work on that?
Not I, but I hope that those who design the new treatment
of indentation and alignment think about this aspect too.
> It would be useful to look at what happens when copying
> text in and out of LibreOffice, and between two windows
> of LibreOffice. That could give an idea of what we
> would want Emacs to do, at least in modes for documents.
>
> We might want to do different things in modes for software.