Michael Z. Kadaner

@yegor-mialyk, may I ask what kind of headache you had with submodules? We use them in the company where I work, and I don't feel any pain. Admittedly, I don't...

Ah, yes, I see. Having a feature branch in the target repo is confusing indeed. I did it once. Fortunately, it should not be needed for the case being discussed...

> ...it requires all the third party software (e.g. Far) to also fully support grapheme clusters... Well, maybe not, not grapheme clusters. I think at least part of the problem...

@alabuzhev, yeah, right. Well, centering can be mostly avoided (I think it was not a coincidence that windows UI shifted mainly to left-alighed strings). String boxing can be done by...

One step is missing, viz. "detecting where they actually ended." So, on the second attempt, the teal rectangle should be of the right width. Is there a good way to...

Thank you for the link. It's horrible. Around 2005, proprietary niche Motorola OS (for phones) did provide applications with the documented API to measure pixel width of a given UNICODE...

Thank you for the correction, @HamRusTal. Sure, in the context of Far development I omitted this clarification.

Thank you, yulian5. It seems to be a correct solution for a wrong problem.

@yulian5, here I am actually "writing ... the C-side binding" for `Menu.SetItemExtendedData`. This is the only useful thing our intellectual friend has suggested. This task is not so easy, because,...

@rohitab > I couldn't get this to work... I apologize. I've spent too much time in this feature, so it's all obvious to me, and I failed to clearly specify...