Re: Recent change on Emacs master: aggressive word-wrap of header lines in article display

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Eric writes:
>
>> I didn't quite follow Bob's progress here, but do you think there's a
>> bug to report?
>
> Not really - if anything should be improved it's how Gnus detects that a
> face is variable pitch.
>
> I was assuming it was looking at the font, and it isn't.
>
>> It seems weird that header wrapping would depend on variable-pitch or
>> not...
>
> It uses the new pixel-fill-region stuff to wrap at the window width. It
> makes sense, I think? It's better than at a fixed number of characters,
> which looks haphazard for a variable pitch font.

Okay, cool.

>> I realized I mostly don't like the variable pitch because it seems to
>> display about 20% larger than the fixed-width fonts, which looks
>> terrible (I've seen people complain about this elsewhere, can't remember
>> what the issue was).
>
> I guess I have just configured/customized the sizes to match at some
> point.
>
> When Lars switched the modeline to variable pitch I switched my
> echo-area/minibuffer to variable pitch as well; I think it looks nice
> (but it was a bit of a faff to configure:
>
>     ; echo-area face:
>     (defface echo-area
>       '((t (:family "DejaVu Sans Condensed")))
>       "Face for the echo-area")
>
>     ;;; And in custom-set-faces:
>     ;;;  '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:inherit echo-area :foreground "medium blue"))))
>
>     ; This to get variable width font in the line below the modeline:
>     (dolist
>         (buf (list " *Minibuf-0*" " *Minibuf-1*" " *Echo Area 0*" " *Echo Area 1*"))
>       (when (get-buffer buf)
>         (with-current-buffer buf
>           (setq-local face-remapping-alist '((default (:inherit echo-area)))))))
>
>     ; This as well - and minibuffer-prompt face above!
>     (defun my-minibuffer-setup-hook ()
>       (buffer-face-set 'echo-area))
>     (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'my-minibuffer-setup-hook)
>
> gathered from searches/various places :-))

I've tried so hard to pretend that face configuration doesn't exist in
Emacs, and that's worked out perfectly until this change! I guess that's
the only reason I'm grumpy. I don't want to do all that config.