Subject: Re: bug#33740: [PATCH] Customizable flymake mode-line indicator

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:13:37 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:57:34 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> I thought we could just put text properties on strings we feed to the
> >> mode-line machinery, but it seems like these don't survive?
> >
> > You need to do it "wisely", then they do survive.
> 
> What does the wisdom entail?

Apply the properties judiciously to specific parts of the mode-line
string, not wholesale to all of it.