Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.6.0
This package provides a global minor mode to increase the
spacing/padding of Emacs windows and frames. The idea is to make
editing and reading feel more comfortable. Enable the mode with M-x
spacious-padding-mode. Adjust the exact spacing values by modifying
the user option spacious-padding-widths.
Inspiration for this package comes from Nicolas Rougier’s impressive
designs and Daniel Mendler’s
org-modern package.
- Package name (GNU ELPA):
spacious-padding - Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/spacious-padding
- Change log: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/spacious-padding
- Git repositories:
- Sample images:
- Backronyms: Space Perception Adjusted Consistently Impacts Overall Usability State … padding; Spacious … Precise Adjustments to Desktop Divider Internals Neatly Generated.
Release notes below.
This is a small release that makes some minor refinements. The package is otherwise stable and works as expected.
We use the spacious-padding theme instead of user
This is an internal detail with how we implement the “spacious”
changes to the faces we cover. Before, we would override anything that
the user would explicitly configure with custom-set-faces, either
via their Elisp code or through the Custom User Interface and the
snippet it automatically generates.
By storing our changes in the bespoke spacious-padding theme instead
of the special user theme, we do not override the user’s preference.
This is the right design in principle, though users may no longer get
the same styles as before because faces they had configured before
will now override what spacious-padding-mode does.
When in doubt, search your configuration for custom-set-faces,
comment out the whole block, try to re-enable spacious-padding-mode,
and see if the results are okay.
Thanks to Martin Marshal for making the initial change in pull request
26: https://github.com/protesilaos/spacious-padding/pull/26. The
change is within the 15-line limit of permitted changes without the
need for copyright assignment to the Free Software Foundation. I then
followed it up with the creation of the ~spacious-padding theme.
The tab-line-tab-current face is supported
This means that tab-line-mode will look consistent when
spacious-padding-mode is enabled, instead of some tabs looks
smaller/different.
spacious-padding-mode works with window-divider-mode
Thanks to Pierre Baille and Tobias Tschinkowitz for bringing up the problem in issue 17: https://github.com/protesilaos/spacious-padding/issues/17.