Sorry, ai mean the native line number feature, not this thing alex is
talking about.

On Jul 11, 2017 6:18 PM, "Filipe Silva" <filipe.silva@gmail.com> wrote:

Eli, just a thought:  wouldn't it be appropriate to ship a minor mode
wrapping this feature?

Or do you think it is better to just leave it to the community?



On Jul 11, 2017 5:59 PM, "Alex" <agrambot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Here's the patch I propose to fix your variable-pitch problem:
> >
> > diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
> > index c3693d1..52a4db5 100644
> > --- a/lisp/faces.el
> > +++ b/lisp/faces.el
> > @@ -2467,7 +2467,7 @@ trailing-whitespace
> >
> >  ;; Definition stolen from linum.el.
> >  (defface line-number
> > -  '((t :inherit (shadow default)))
> > +  '((t :inherit (shadow default) :family "Monospace Serif"))
> >    "Face for displaying line numbers.
> >  This face is used when `display-line-numbers' is non-nil.
> >
>
> This gives me a smaller line numbers by default, since I apparently have
> not configured an appropriate serif font (my default font is DejaVu Sans
> Mono).
>
> What about just inheriting from fixed-pitch rather than default?
>
>