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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> The only complication is that with proportional font,
> there is no nontrivial way to right-align some text: In fixed-width
> environment, you just pad enough spaces, but in proportional
> environment, you have to pad (space :align-to (- (+ right
> right-margin) (PIXEL_WIDTH))) where PIXEL_WIDTH = pixel width of the
> stuff on right.

Yes, I guess right-aligning text on the mode line is pretty hard (unless
you switch to l2r on the mode line)?

> And there is no easy way to calculate the pixel width
> of a piece of text.

There's `string-pixel-width' in Emacs 29 now, and it actually works now
(after Martin's fix yesterdayish 😄).

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