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

[Drew Adams]

> 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.

FWIW, I don't find it unusable.  (Just one user.)

(So far, my vote would be for face `mode-line' to
inherit from face `variable-pitch'.)