From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:04:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <> <<87o8ls1vvq.fsf@posteo.net>> <<20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus>> <<3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru>> <> <<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>> <<1F8F3522-1E6C-40A3-B61A-B9B84FC0AD18@gnu.org>> <> <<83k0vw5091.fsf@gnu.org>> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29487"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 04:07:41 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 1kRnFV-0007Y0-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2020 04:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRnFU-00042w-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRnCN-0000A6-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33615) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRnCN-0003Xi-J0; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kRnCJ-0000Ow-Ff; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:04:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:45:45 -0700 (PDT)) 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:257435 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I like this idea, in principle. Partly because once we use variable-width fonts, to get good visual results we will need to solve the problems of getting good alignment. We will need to develop solutions that are easy to use and look good. That will be an important step forward. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)