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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, 34476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:00:16 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The alternative which I would like to try implementing is to modify
> the code of display_string so that it doesn't produce multiple space
> glyphs, replacing them with a single glyph, when this option is
> non-nil.  Since display_mode_element always calls display_string to
> produce the glyphs, this should allow us to solve the problem cleanly.
> Stay tuned.

Sounds good...  but I guess this wouldn't allow us to do the `long'
version of the variable?  (I.e., only compact if the line is too long.)

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