From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:39:07 +0300 Message-ID: <837drszozo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9ftf6n9.fsf@gnu.org> <835z7qfp6h.fsf@gnu.org> <87ft6lgw5y.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <1F8F3522-1E6C-40A3-B61A-B9B84FC0AD18@gnu.org> <87blh9gthg.fsf@gnus.org> <87tuv1f2y9.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8l9f1dl.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfgc50gb.fsf@gnu.org> <875z7gflpl.fsf@gnus.org> <83imbf2xux.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfgbarkk.fsf@gnus.org> <83zh4q195b.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgah1mjz.fsf@gnus.org> <83r1q0zwlp.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35451"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 19:40:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kSkl7-00098d-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42118 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSkl6-0006AT-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSkjr-0005hZ-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSkjr-0005Bo-0n; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2918 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSkjo-00043s-VN; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:38:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:07:42 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:257668 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:07:42 -0400 > > > 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)) > > One solution is to not use text-properties, e.g. That's what I suggested: to use the "12" part for that. > The downside is that this will only work for -line-format, whereas > this kind of functionality would also be handy within buffer text for > tabular modes like `proced`. Outside of the mode line, I don't know how to implement that easily, because that would need some kind of looking-back to find where the text property started.