Re: Some developement questions

[Paul Eggert]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > A little bit of marketing would help here. The initial contents of *scratch*,
> > the mode line, and the minibuffer need not be monospaced, and would all
> > benefit from a better font.
>
> 99.999% of my use of*scratch*  and the minibuffer is code or data
> that should be (i.e., that I want to be) monospace.

That's fine, and I wasn't suggesting changing that.

> are you proposing that Emacs automatically
> change *scratch* to a monospace font when most of its contents
> become code

No, just that the initial contents shouldn't be monospace.

> What's so hard about using a variable-width font for your Emacs 
> classes/demos

I generally don't do demos. My students use Emacs directly, and it's better for 
them (as for any other new user) if the defaults work nicely for them.
> (FWIW, on MS Windows it looks like menus use a variable-width
> font.)

Same is true for GNU/Linux, by default.