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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh@janestreet.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: min-width display property, but with padding at the start
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:34:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874j7fclfw.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861q2jw9r1.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > Are there many people who use variable-pitch fonts on the mode line?
>> 
>> I think that it is fairly common to use various Unicode symbols or
>> emojis that may come from different fonts that may or may not have the
>> same symbol width (even if each single font is monospaced).
>
> Spencer's problem was not with such symbols.

Yes, of course. But the topic is more broad.
I do not think that the proposed min-width property is something that is
inherently limited to using on numbers.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-20 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-19 20:53 min-width display property, but with padding at the start Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 12:09   ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 13:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 13:42       ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-20 14:03       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-20 14:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 14:34           ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-08-20 18:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 18:33               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-20 19:31       ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-08-20 19:46       ` Jim Porter
2024-08-20 12:21   ` tomas

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