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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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.

I wasn't really thinking that the :min-width would be translated into
text properties at all here -- it's just an instruction to the mode line
rendering machinery.

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