Re: on helm substantial differences

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com,  bugs@gnu.support,  andreyk.mad@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  contovob@tcd.ie,  rudalics@gmx.at,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  ghe@sdf.org,  drew.adams@oracle.com
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 22:11:01 +0200
> 
> > There is: font-get-glyphs.  But I'd recommend to just use a TAB of a
> > suitable width instead of dealing with the complexity that
> > font-get-glyphs requires.
> 
> I can't find a suitable width for TAB: 5 makes a too wide gap between
> a character and its name, and with 4 some characters are misaligned.

Then I think we should just use 5.

> But despite the complexity of font-get-glyphs, is it reasonably fast?

I cannot answer that, you will have to try and see.  Whether the speed
is reasonable depends on what the rest of the application does.