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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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?
>
> Yes.  But that's how you design tabulated display, don't you?  You
> select the coordinate where each column will end, and set tab stops
> there, right?

More or less.  But how would this work for mode lines?  There's nothing
tabular about those, and they move around a lot.

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