Re: tab widths change when font size changes

[Eric Hanchrow]

Eric Hanchrow <offby1 <at> blarg.net> writes:

> 
> 
> Symptoms:
> 
> I started Emacs like this:
> 
> ./src/emacs -Q -fn '-*-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-Medium-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
/tmp/stats 
> 
> I maximzed it by clicking the window manager's "maximze" button.
> 
> I noticed that the columns weren't lined up -- for example, in the
> second-to-last column, whose entries are the word "bignums", the word
> "bignums" in the last row appears seven characters to the left of the word
above it.
> 
> But start emacs with almost the same command line, but a different size of the
same font, like this
> 
> ./src/emacs -Q -fn '-*-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-Medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
/tmp/stats 
> 
> (i.e., 16 instead of 15)
> 
> ... and the columns all line up as I expect.

Note that this problem doesn't occur with GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1
(i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195), using the same font.