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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>> I tried this, and the mode-line looks much nicer indeed,
>>> but this improvement is unusable because the mode-line jumps
>>> left and right when the buffer is saved, the cursor is moved, etc.
>>
>> Do you use a variable-pitch font that has different widths for the
>> digits?  I didn't think that would be an issue in practice.  What font
>> do you use?
>
> I'm using DejaVu Sans, where all the digits have the same width,
> but still with column-number-mode enabled, the mode-line exhibits
> jumpiness when the length of the column number changes.

OK, so you exaggerated a bit.  :-)  Then we're on the same page. 

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