GNU bug report logs - #34476
fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen

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Message #92 received at 34476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it
 running off the screen
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:21:38 +0200

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

>> > (although I'm still unhappy with doing that, as we had over the years
>> > quite a few complaints that the result is not exactly identical to the
>> > displayed mode line).
>> 
>> Perhaps that's something that can be fixed?
>
> Not easily, because the display engine uses a different environment,
> and also temporarily changes various settings as needed, something you
> cannot do in Lisp.

Hm, ok...  Are these obscure differences?  I just went through a handful
of buffers in this Emacs, and as far as I'm able to eyeball,
(insert (format-mode-line mode-line-format)) produces something that
looks identical to what's in the mode line in all the buffers.

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