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 18:03:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfg8zw73.fsf@gnu.org> References: <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9ftf6n9.fsf@gnu.org> <835z7qfp6h.fsf@gnu.org> <87ft6lgw5y.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <87lfgahtcw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87o8l51mh3.fsf@gnus.org> <87k0vt9tgx.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87v9fd1dyp.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6wp9rmv.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87r1q11bx3.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3662"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: info@protesilaos.com, juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 17:04:17 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 1kSiK7-0000ow-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:04:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSiK6-0000OG-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSiJG-0007Pa-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59074) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSiJC-0001kF-NG; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4774 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSiJB-00047M-TX; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:03:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r1q11bx3.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:53:12 +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:257641 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:53:12 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov > > Protesilaos Stavrou writes: > > >> I'm using DejaVu Sans, and all the digits are the same width here. > > > > True for DejaVu Sans. Though it is the difference between the width of > > a space and a character/digit that causes the issue for me. Again, this > > is minor and subjective. > > Yes, with variable width fonts, different characters take up various > amount of space -- that's the point, and will have to be dealt with. I think Protesilaos means SPC the character, not "space" the screen estate.