Re: variable-pitch font in article buffer

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:10:40 +0900 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote: 

MB> Now that Emacs CVS has the face-remapping-alist featrue, I'll mention
MB> this little hack I have in ~/.gnus:

MB> (defun gnus-article-variable-pitch-mode (&optional arg)
MB>   "Apply `variable-pitch-mode' in article buffer."
MB>   (interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg (quote toggle))))
MB>   (with-current-buffer gnus-article-buffer
MB>     (variable-pitch-mode arg)))

MB> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook
MB>           (lambda () (local-set-key "v" 'gnus-article-variable-pitch-mode)))

MB> (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
MB>           (lambda () (variable-pitch-mode t)))


MB> I dunno if something similar is desirable for default Gnus, but having a
MB> variable-pitch font in the article buffer is often really nice --
MB> messages with lots of prose can be significantly easier to read.

MB> However some articles really need a fixed-pitch font, thus the
MB> easy-to-hit summary-buffer binding to toggle variable-pitch mode in the
MB> article buffer.

This might make sense as a group/topic property that's also triggered by
article contents, etc.  How do you use it, always manually?

Ted