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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less |
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Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:00:59 +0300 |
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On October 11, 2020 9:35:39 AM GMT+03:00, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > We cannot just switch to variable-pitch font and leave the rest
> > unchanged. Using a variable-pitch font will cause an annoying
> > horizontal movement of the mode-line stuff when some parts change.
> > For example, moving in the buffer will change the column and line
> > numbers, and everything to the right of that will as result shift
> > slightly in the horizontal direction.
>
> The line numbers aren't that big a problem -- the number of digits
> rarely change, and all the numbers are the same size in most variable
> pitch fonts that are in use for this stuff.
>
> I don't use column number mode, but I switched it on now, and that
> seems
> fine to me, too.
The number of digits in the line number can change a lot if you jump to another
place with M-g g or C-x C-x or some other similar command.
And what about the "All/Top/Bot/NN%" part?
And then there are optional displays, like display-time-mode etc.
In any case, I wouldn't rely on what you see with some subset of fonts, this is
a general feature we are talking about.
> > So to use variable pitch fonts here (and in any other tabjlar
> > display), we'd need to use 'align-to' display properties to keep the
> > other parts from moving.
>
> After playing with this stuff for half an hour, the only thing that
> seemed vaguely disturbing was the U:** stuff at the start. Adding an
> align-to after that would get us most of the way there, I think.
I rather think we should use align-to for all the fields. Half-measures will
come back to bite us down the road.
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., (continued)
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/09
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/11
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/12
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/12
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/13
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/14