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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:01:07 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I think if we want to keep the fields in their places, we should
> > consider the mode line to be tabular.
> 
> I don't think a tabular mode line is something that would be practical.

All the "other" apps that provide such a "status bar" do treat its
display as tabular: the positions of its parts never move.