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: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:28:06 +0200
> 
> This reminds me, by the way...  I forget if this has been discussed
> before or not, but in these cases it'd be handy to have a text property
> like, say, (propertize "foo" :min-width 5) (or :min-width (50)), and
> have the display engine compute how much space to add to the end.
> 
> Would that be much work to add?

Let's put it this way: if there's a simple way of adding this, I
cannot think of it.

Btw, if there were such a property, how would you calculate the value
to put there?