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

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

If a list of faces is used, attributes from faces earlier in the list
override those from later faces.

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

Oh, okay.  Yes, that would be the drawback.