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

[Juri Linkov]

> So here's my most controversial suggestion ever:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
> index 5b7e0a5aee..e6f65a5901 100644
> --- a/lisp/faces.el
> +++ b/lisp/faces.el
> @@ -2553,6 +2553,7 @@ mode-line-faces
>  (defface mode-line
>    '((((class color) (min-colors 88))
>       :box (:line-width -1 :style released-button)
> +     :inherit variable-pitch
>       :background "grey75" :foreground "black")
>      (t
>       :inverse-video t))
>
> In addition to looking nicer, it means we can fit more data into the
> mode line.

I tried this, and the mode-line looks much nicer indeed,
but this improvement is unusable because the mode-line jumps
left and right when the buffer is saved, the cursor is moved, etc.

Is it possible to leave monospaced fonts on parts of the mode-line
that change often (mode-line-modified, mode-line-position),
and put variable-pitch only on parts of the mode-line that don't
change often (mode-line-buffer-identification, mode-line-modes…)