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

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:06:37 +0200 Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

>>> Could you try to make proced work with a variable pitch header-line?  I
>>> tried and failed (bug#1779).
>>
>> Done.  The right-alignment is still fairly ugly, of course.
>
> Trying to click on the proced header line sometimes sorts a wrong column.
>
> Comparing 'proced-sort-header' with 'tabulated-list-col-sort' shows
> that the latter uses '(cdr posn-object)' to get the clicked column,
> whereas 'proced' uses more complex logic with 'posn-actual-col-row'
> that fails to get the correct aligned column.
>
> This begs the question why proced doesn't use 'tabulated-list-mode'?
> Maybe there are some features in proced that are not yet supported
> by tabulated-list?

This question came up in bug#1779
<20008.59545.186131.208473@gargle.gargle.HOWL>:

From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1779: 23.0.60; proced with variable-pitch header line
  To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
  Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 1779@debbugs.gnu.org
  Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:03:53 -0500

  On Thu Jul 21 2011 Chong Yidong wrote:
  > AFAICT, the alignment issue does not occur in Tabulated List mode, which
  > uses :align-to.  In the short run, you might be able to get a clue about
  > the correct fix from there.  In the long run, I think proced.el should
  > be reworked to use Tabulated List mode.

  Thanks, I'll have to find out what Tabulated List mode is doing.
  I am just wondering: In general, proced was much inspired by dired.
  Would you suggest that dired should likewise use Tabulated List mode?

Maybe Roland (added to CC) can weigh in again.

Steve Berman