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

[Juri Linkov]

>> 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?

IMHO, the difference is that dired is based on the output from external
programs inserted to the buffer as is, whereas proced has an internal
list data that can be provided to tabulated-list.