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: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:02:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0vry4cu.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> <87wnzsyofc.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24944"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 16:10:36 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 1kT3xj-0006OC-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kT3xi-0004O7-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kT3pm-0004y0-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kT3pm-0003Qj-Gn; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2231 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kT3pc-0007Pn-Rg; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:02:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wnzsyofc.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:48:55 +0200) 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:257733 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:48:55 +0200 > > > (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. But so is %12b, no? > > 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. I don't think I see the complications. Can you elaborate?