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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257657 Archived-At: > But maybe using monospaced fonts only on these parts of the mode-line > will fix the problem when the rest of the mode-line will use variable- > pitch? I'd suggest that rather than trying to do something like that automatically (especially if done in a hard-to-disable way), we should just try to make it easier for users to apply a given face to specific parts of the mode-line. Finding a good way to make that easier would also let users do other things more easily to parts of the mode-line. We have mode-line variables, but maybe we need another level, that takes the string results they provide and lets you easily apply a function to them. We have `eval', and you can pretty much do anything you need to do with the mode-line, but it's not simple to do things, for most users.