Re: Some developement questions

[Joost Kremers]

On Wed, Sep 05 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > What newbies see when they start Emacs is not*scratch*, it's 
> > the
> > splash image and the welcome buffer.
>
> True; I'd forgotten. But we could still spruce up those bottom 
> two lines, no?
> They're still using monospaced fonts and look like refugees from 
> the 1980s.

IMHO the monospace font is not the problem. The font I get when I 
do `emacs -Q` looks quite good (it's DejaVu Sans Mono, BTW). But 
some way to visualise different types of information (similar to 
what most mode-line packages do), perhaps a few unicode symbols 
and a default way to put things at the right side of the mode line 
would, I think, go a long way to make the mode line look more 
modern.

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Joost Kremers
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