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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:07:42 -0400
> 
> > 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.

That's what I suggested: to use the "12" part for that.

> 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`.

Outside of the mode line, I don't know how to implement that easily,
because that would need some kind of looking-back to find where the
text property started.