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fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 34476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:36:30 +0100

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> The function display_mode_line doesn't produce the updated mode-line
>> contents for the selected window, it produces it for the window passed
>> as its first argument W.  So instead of this:
>>
>> 	  && window_body_width (XWINDOW (selected_window), false) >=
>>
>> I think you should use this:
>>
>> 	  && window_body_width (w, false) >=
>
> Better
>
>           && WINDOW_TOTAL_COLS (w) >=
>
> because the mode line covers the entire width of the window (think of
> those people using extra large margins).

Good point; I've now made both these adjustments.

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