Re: How to revert the mode line on master

[john]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> I do not like the new behavior of mode line on master. How to revert?
>
> Thanks

I too dislike the new mode line; in patucular the * to show the buffer as 
been modified was nreadable

I saw the suggesion that there are instructions to revert in  NEWS 
but....

> ** The mode line now uses a proportional font by default.
> To get the old monospaced mode line back, customize the 'mode-line'
> face not to inherit from the 'variable-pitch' face, or add this to
> your ~/.emacs:
>
>  (set-face-attribute 'mode-line t :inherit nil)

I tried adding that to my .emacs but nothing changed.  I trid customising 
the mode-line face but failed to see where to do this, not detecting 
anything mentioning variable-pitch.

I rarely customise emacs so do not have much practice so I am lost.  But I 
really want the old mode-line back.  Could someone give blow by blow
instructions please?


==John ff