Subject: Re: bug#17782: 24.3; package.el: searches don't see elided chars of package name

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:14:31 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> I'm curious to know why the ellipsis is added as a display property in
> truncate-string-to-width[1] instead of making the relevant text
> invisible[2].  Isn't this behaviour too specific to this use case to
> justify extending truncate-string-to-width with it?

Sorry, I don't quite understand?  Making the text invisible would make
it look visually different than what it used to look like, so the
ellipsis have to be added to avoid changing the look.

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