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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes, this can be done.  But we'd need fort to decide what is the
> semantics of this:
>
>   (setq mode-line-thing `(:propertize "%12b" :min-width 10))
>
> IOW, when the format and :min-width contradict, who "wins"?

I'd say %12b should win -- :min-width should be used only to add extra
padding if needed.  I think that would be pretty clear semantics...

> Or maybe we should re-purpose the WIDTH parameter of such formats to
> mean "min-width"?

Hm...  *ponder*  I think that perhaps sounds like a complicating
factor.  I mean, semantics-wise.

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