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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 03:37:58 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (But the patch otherwise looks "obviously correct" to me; passing in ?\s
>> as the ellipsis argument doesn't make much sense.)
>
> It seems this code is over-complicated with several levels of backquoting.
> So maybe better just to push this obvious fix.

Yup.

And ibuffer probably can't use the ellipsis stuff from the function
anyway, because it wants to create a tabulated buffer layout, and
assumes that all the characters have the same width.  (I've just skimmed
the code; I may well be wrong here.)

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