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

[Jim Porter]

On 11/24/2021 5:53 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I've now switched master over to defaulting to proportional fonts in the
> mode line.  Customise the `mode-line' face to get the old look back.
>
> I've made the most obvious things that change size -- the U:-- thing,
> the top/bot, and the line/col thing -- use the `min-width' spec, so
> things should jump around (for those that care about that).

Not sure whether to file a bug for this or just mention it here, but it 
seems that the `min-width' spec interacts poorly with 
`mode-line-client', which displays an "@" immediately after the colon in 
the U:--- thing for emacsclient frames. Normally, this would look like 
"U:@---", but now it looks like "U:    @---". See the attached image.

To see this in action yourself, you can run:

  emacs -Q --daemon
  emacsclient -c foo.txt

Looking at the values for `mode-line-format' and `mode-line-client', I 
think this may be because both use `:propertize', and this causes some 
confusion internally?

- Jim

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