Re: The article buffer, and proportional fonts

[Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> wrote:
>Steinar Bang writes:
>>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:
>>> I just decided that I wanted the article buffer to use a
>>> proportional font.
>
>> What a terrible netscapeish/microsoftian idea for messages without
>> MIME headers, or messages with MIME type text/plain.
>
>You misspelled netscapeish/microsoftian/XEmacsian ;-).  I thought it
>looked pretty cool, but it was slooow ...

slow ? *shrug*  It's been so long since I ran gnus in fixed-width
that i've absolutely no idea how slow it is in comparison.

Come to think of it, i've never run gnus in a fixed-width font.

My whole reason for running XEmacs (initially) was so i could use proportional
fonts, before netscape existed :PP

My default font (for everything) is palatino - if I really have to use a
fixed-width font, then I've got a small hack that I put in dired mode, and
C mode (the latter was more proof-of-concept than anything), that fiddles the
font-lock-* fonts to use a fixed width font in that buffer only.

Yay for proportional fonts (and XEmacs) ! :)

Andrew
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