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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >   (setq mode-line-thing `(:propertize "%12b" :min-width 10))
>> >
>> > IOW, when the format and :min-width contradict, who "wins"?
>> 
>> I'd say %12b should win -- :min-width should be used only to add extra
>> padding if needed.
>
> But so is %12b, no?
>
>> > Or maybe we should re-purpose the WIDTH parameter of such formats to
>> > mean "min-width"?
>> 
>> Hm...  *ponder*  I think that perhaps sounds like a complicating
>> factor.  I mean, semantics-wise.
>
> I don't think I see the complications.  Can you elaborate?

I mean, it would be complicated if we did both.  If we just extend
"%12b" to effectively be :min-width, then that'd be fine, I think.
Unless we want to do pixel-based :min-widths, but that's perhaps not so
useful...

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