Re: Proportional fonts in the mode line (one month test)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:19:41 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Wednesday,  1 Dec 2021 at 14:54, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > I see.  So I'd assume evalling the following also has the same overlap?
> >
> > (insert (propertize "foo-emacs" 'face 'variable-pitch))
> 
> trying this in my scratch buffer displays the text using normal
> monospaced font.

You need to turn off font-lock, because otherwise no 'face' property
can have any effect.