Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:35:56 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> But...  Now that you mention it, I don't quite see how to use :align-to
> >> in the mode line (in general).  It takes as a parameter the target
> >> column number (or pixels), so if we want to say "this element should be
> >> at least 80 pixels wide", then we need to know what column/pixel we're
> >> on already, don't we?
> >
> > Yes.  But that's how you design tabulated display, don't you?  You
> > select the coordinate where each column will end, and set tab stops
> > there, right?
> 
> More or less.  But how would this work for mode lines?  There's nothing
> tabular about those, and they move around a lot.

I think if we want to keep the fields in their places, we should
consider the mode line to be tabular.