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: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:07:36 +0200
> 
> >> > 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.

That is what I intended to propose.

> Unless we want to do pixel-based :min-widths, but that's perhaps not so
> useful...

The idea is to interpret "12" in units of the canonical frame's
character width, and do the calculations in pixels.  I think this is
good enough, as I don't envision a need for Lisp programs to fine-tune
the position at pixel granularity.