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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     I agree, but it's not really possible to align them properly in a
>     variable-width font.
> 
> They can be aligned if they are before the buffer names.
> That might be a reason for putting them at the left.

Doesn't work -- the names themselves end up being unaligned (becuase the
characters used to display the status are not of consistent width in a
variable-width font), which looks even worse.

-Miles
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