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Description
Increase the padding/spacing of frames and windows
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spacious-padding-0.7.0.tar (.sig), 2025-Jun-01, 120 KiB
Maintainer
Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Website
https://github.com/protesilaos/spacious-padding
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spacious-padding

To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.

Full description

spacious-padding for GNU Emacs

DEMO IMAGES:

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.

Old versions

spacious-padding-0.6.1.tar.lz2025-Apr-3023.1 KiB
spacious-padding-0.6.0.tar.lz2025-Jan-0622.7 KiB
spacious-padding-0.5.0.tar.lz2024-Apr-2921.8 KiB
spacious-padding-0.4.1.tar.lz2024-Mar-3120.9 KiB
spacious-padding-0.4.0.tar.lz2024-Mar-0420.9 KiB
spacious-padding-0.3.0.tar.lz2023-Dec-2118.8 KiB
spacious-padding-0.2.2.tar.lz2023-Nov-253.37 KiB
spacious-padding-0.2.1.tar.lz2023-Nov-253.37 KiB
spacious-padding-0.2.0.tar.lz2023-Nov-243.36 KiB
spacious-padding-0.1.0.tar.lz2023-Jun-062.41 KiB
spacious-padding-0.0.0.tar.lz2023-Jun-032.27 KiB

News

This document contains the release notes for each tagged commit on the project’s main git repository: https://github.com/protesilaos/spacious-padding.

The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/spacious-padding.

1. Version 0.7.0 on 2025-06-01

This is a small release that makes spacious-padding-mode work as intended when used in tandem with the Emacs daemon and subsequent calls to emacsclient -c. I made the function responsible for triggering the “spacious padding” effects work with individual frames and then I responded to issue 33 by Lou Woell about integrating that with the server-after-make-frame-hook: https://github.com/protesilaos/spacious-padding/issues/33.

Additionally, the package now defines two faces that can be used to configure the user option spacious-padding-subtle-mode-line (read its documentation string for all the possible values it accepts).

Here is how they can be set (default value is nil): 

(setq spacious-padding-subtle-mode-line
      '( :mode-line-active spacious-padding-subtle-mode-line-active
	 :mode-line-inactive spacious-padding-subtle-mode-line-inactive))

Reload the spacious-padding-mode for changes to take effect.

When configured this way and with default styles they make the mode line use a minimalist overline with no background colour. The active mode line has a more noticeable border than the inactive ones. All my themes are designed to support this aesthetic (though themes can style those faces as they see fit).

2. Version 0.6.0 on 2025-01-06

This is a small release that makes some minor refinements. The package is otherwise stable and works as expected.

2.1. 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.

2.2. 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.

2.3. 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.

3. Version 0.5.0 on 2024-04-29

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