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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:01:58 +0200

Perhaps call it...  `limit-string-for-display'...  And it could work for
the displayed pixel width of all the characters involved, so that it'd
also work on variable-pitch characters (and compute the correct length
occupied for … vs ..., too.

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