Re: Proportional fonts in the mode line (one month test)

[Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>]

On 11/25/2021 3:04 PM, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> That might help, but is there also a "wide colon" character we could
>> use for the CR/LF indicator?
> 
> I'm sure this is a silly idea, but…
> 
> Would it be possible to double down on the min-width specs, i.e. set the
> min-width of each individual piece of "the U:---" thing to something
> large enough to be clickable, despite the indicator char being narrow?

If the goal is to have Emacs take advantage of its rendering 
capabilities when run as a graphical application so that it doesn't just 
look like a terminal window, another option might be to use icons for 
each element in the U:--- thing. SVGs would be easy to scale for various 
resolutions/pixel densities and still ensure that they're relatively 
easy to click. It may also be possible to make icons that are more 
"obvious"; I doubt most novices could tell you what each of the 
characters in U:--- mean.

On the other hand, that's significantly more effort than other 
solutions, unless someone happens to have appropriate icons sitting 
around waiting to be used.

- Jim