GNU bug report logs - #39265
26.3; format-mode-line with FACE argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 26.3

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 39265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com
Cc: 39265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39265: 26.3; format-mode-line with FACE argument
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:36:15 +0200

tags 39265 notabug
thanks

> From: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:05:25 +0900
> 
> 
> #'format-mode-line assumes all characters of a string have a same 'face
> property value and checks only the first character.

Yes.  The reason is performance: the mode line is redrawn very
frequently, basically, after every command.

This is not a bug, this is the intended behavior.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 105 days ago.

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