From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:42:17 +0200 Message-ID: <5741DB84-3208-4235-8ADD-0B9370F7710E@Web.DE> References: <898836.13190.qm@web121803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4d9120aa$0$23756$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <47119ce7-b1d1-4967-aa3e-d10112f10510@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4d9232cb$0$23752$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <516de695-18e0-4442-9616-63bc24b99a58@18g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4d92ead3$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87sju47n29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301503390 19230 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 16:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Pascal J. Bourguignon Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 18:43:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4yU1-00070d-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4yU0-00057k-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55330 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4yTN-00056M-Ui for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4yTM-0007p2-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:56343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4yTM-0007oT-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.web.de ( [172.20.0.243]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF1418AC16F0; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:42:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.227.74] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp01.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1Q4yTK-00054T-00; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:42:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87sju47n29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+364edhOLdSYDzycpvG0dbAJRq8kGcGhs/9iR6 fF/Ap/yCAmrL2DO9S7zXJ3GcEYOUA5npaNo/sEXwafNva4HSRH SDQCNzE4QR6gvesiHrzA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.234 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80543 Archived-At: Am 30.03.2011 um 15:30 schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon: > So proportional fonts are hoplessly useless for programming. And also in dired-mode! (In one account GNU Emacs 24.0.50 uses a proportional font for dired buffers!) -- Greetings Pete There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.