Subject: Re: bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 05:30:12 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:30:56 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked], Arthur Miller <[email-masked]>
> 
> Would anybody mind very much if I added a `string-truncate-right' that
> does all this automatically, and amend `string-truncate-left' in the
> same way?  I.e., use (if (char-displayable-p ?…) "…" "...").

That could be useful, but it would be better if the name hinted on the
fact that char-displayable-p is involved.