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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> display-time-mode shows AM and PM, though.

I don't think the shift in pixels twice a day will annoy anyone.  :-)

>> 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.
>
> Using :align-to is simple, and could even simplify the mode-line
> construction: instead of carefully counting spaces, you will need just
> one space with a suitable :align-to.  So I'm not really sure why this
> needs an argument.

I just didn't want to add any premature complexity here if none is
needed.

But...  Now that you mention it, I don't quite see how to use :align-to
in the mode line (in general).  It takes as a parameter the target
column number (or pixels), so if we want to say "this element should be
at least 80 pixels wide", then we need to know what column/pixel we're
on already, don't we?  Or am I missing something obvious here?

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