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

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That's an incompatible change, in that it will cause header-line not
> necessarily follow mode-line.  Right?

We could do this instead; the effect is the same in emacs -Q:

diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index d120852418..c7d9b48d2d 100644
--- a/lisp/faces.el
+++ b/lisp/faces.el
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@ header-line
   '((default
       ;; FIXME: This can be changed to inherit only `mode-line' once
       ;;        that face inherits variable-pitch.
-      :inherit (variable-pitch mode-line))
+      :inherit (mode-line variable-pitch))
     (((type tty))
      ;; This used to be `:inverse-video t', but that doesn't look very
      ;; good when combined with inverse-video mode-lines and multiple