Eli Zaretskii writes: > Fine. I've now reverted the change which triggered these discussions. > From now on, if someone has their default face set to use a > variable-pitch font, they will have to customize line-number face to > countermand that. (Or maybe someone else will come up with a better > solution.) Sorry, James: I tried. I didn't mean to make you revert this commit if you disagree, but rather to discuss and try to find the best way to do this. Cheers, Nico