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All I want for Emacs is support for proportional fonts. I don’t care if it’s a major hack, and I don’t want rich text or WYSIWYG. Just proportional fonts.

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Um, Emacs does support proportional fonts.

And has for quite a while.

Dang, must have been thinking silly last time I checked.

It happens. I'm still regularly surprised by "I wish Emacs would...", only to find out it has since 2004.

Well, I’m wrong and thank you.

I wrote my master's dissertation in Emacs with proportional fonts and many other nice affordances. Here's one of the blog posts I used for inspiration: https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/

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