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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >>         (setq mode-line-thing
>> >>               `(:propertize
>> >>                 "some-string"
>> >>                 :min-width 15))

[...]

> Then perhaps I didn't understand your suggestion: how would the above
> be different from what you originally had in mind about :min-width?

When rendering the mode line, Emacs knows what pixel it started the
first glyph of each mode line element on, and it knows where it ends, so
it sounds conceptually sound to add a :min-width spec here (since it can
just insert some space of the required length at the end).

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