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 17:49:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83sgagzwtu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <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> <83mu0s50if.fsf@gnu.org> <87blh8fm11.fsf@gnus.org> <83k0vv2xzt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pn5naro3.fsf@gnus.org> <831ri22nsk.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnzt1mnw.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33678"; 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 Wed Oct 14 17:10:36 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 1kSiQG-0008ZC-2Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:10:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSiQF-0006lH-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSi63-0001UA-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSi60-00087D-2l; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3935 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSi5y-0006TI-Ri; Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:49:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wnzt1mnw.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:01:07 +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:257645 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:01:07 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I think if we want to keep the fields in their places, we should > > consider the mode line to be tabular. > > I don't think a tabular mode line is something that would be practical. All the "other" apps that provide such a "status bar" do treat its display as tabular: the positions of its parts never move.