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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:27:23 -0500
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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))

I don't see how that is different.

My problem is that this change makes header-line different from
mode-line, which I think is undesirable.