Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The problem is how to select the appropriate "x character" to use as
> the unit of width.  Different fonts will have different characters
> suitable for this role, so how to have a default spec that will DTRT
> with whatever fonts are selected on different platforms for the
> relevant faces?

I don't think that's an insurmountable task, and we could leave it as a
customisation option for the times we guess wrong.  In practice, in the
mode line the problem is that a - character typically takes less space
than the rest of the characters, and using just about any "normal"
letter as the model character will fix the issue.

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