Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The number of digits in the line number can change a lot if you jump
> to another place with M-g g or C-x C-x or some other similar command.

That's true, but is also the case today (in huge files).  I think the
only way to see whether it's annoying or not is to try it out on people
and see what they say.

> And what about the "All/Top/Bot/NN%" part?

Ditto.

> And then there are optional displays, like display-time-mode etc.

All the ones that display numbers (and don't change between numbers and
non-numerical data) aren't affected in any reasonable font.

> I rather think we should use align-to for all the fields.
> Half-measures will come back to bite us down the road.

I think we should just gather some feedback first and see what's
annoying and what isn't.  I've now used this for hours :-), and the only
thing I've noticed being even remotely odd is the U:** switching to
U:--, which takes much less space and draws the eye.

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