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

[Juri Linkov]

>> I tried this, and the mode-line looks much nicer indeed,
>> but this improvement is unusable because the mode-line jumps
>> left and right when the buffer is saved, the cursor is moved, etc.
>
> Do you use a variable-pitch font that has different widths for the
> digits?  I didn't think that would be an issue in practice.  What font
> do you use?

I'm using DejaVu Sans, where all the digits have the same width,
but still with column-number-mode enabled, the mode-line exhibits
jumpiness when the length of the column number changes.

But maybe using monospaced fonts only on these parts of the mode-line
will fix the problem when the rest of the mode-line will use variable-pitch?