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

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes, this can be done.  But we'd need fort to decide what is the
> semantics of this:
>
>   (setq mode-line-thing `(:propertize "%12b" :min-width 10))

One solution is to not use text-properties, e.g.

    (setq mode-line-format
          '(...
            (:control-width mode-line-buffer-identification
                            :min-width 10 :max-width 30)
            ...
            (:control-width mode-line-position
                            :min-width 10
                            :align 'center)
            ...))

The downside is that this will only work for <foo>-line-format, whereas
this kind of functionality would also be handy within buffer text for
tabular modes like `proced`.


        Stefan