[RFC] Make caret width scalable wrt current font, not zoom.

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 02:30:13PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> This is an experiment to see what people think about it. The idea is
> 
> 1/ make cursor width scalable by default

I like this idea.

> 2/ instead of setting a width that depends on zoom, choose one that depends
> on current font line width (like the height depends on font height).

Makes sense.

> What I still do not like is that "0" is not an intuitive value for the caret
> width in preferences. I thought we had a way to display "auto" instead, but
> I cannot find how to do that.
> 
> Thoughts?

I tested the patch and like it.

Thanks for your work on it,

Scott
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