Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:12:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> It seems that gedit uses the actual x-pixel-position to move the
> cursor down.  It will be better Emacs does the same in the future.

The future has passed when Emacs-23 was released.
Nowadays "columns" are mostly used for filling and indentation purposes
(they're mostly OK for indentation, but they're not that good for
filling, tho word-wrap makes this less clear).


        Stefan