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

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:38 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>  Other obvious candidates for variable-pitching are basically any mode
>  that displays data in tabular form.  And, of course, the manuals, but
>  that'll happen by itself once we move from .info to .html.
>
> Is this a serious statement?  Please don't do that.  I can browse an entire 
> Info manual easily inside Emacs nicely by pressing the spacebar and delete 
> only.  I can
> search entire manuals quickly and move across manuals easily.

(Jumping in without having read the whole thread; my apologies if my
reply misses the mark)

FWIW, Emacs's web browser (M-x eww), just like most read-only modes,
supports SPC and DEL for forward and backward page navigation.

Whatever this hypothetical move from .info to .html entails (I don't
think we have seen patches for that yet), I expect the maintainers'
vision is to keep feature parity with the current Info browser, with all
its indexing and searching convenience; I don't think there should be
cause for alarm.