Subject: Re: bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 06:18:13 +0100

João Távora <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars, this reminds me of a bug report (completely forgot the number),
> where the mode-line's indicators would become configurable via some 
> "format string" mini-language, or something like that.  Maybe we should 
> take that up again, and maybe abandon the "format string" and make it
> use the same kind of language used in mode-line-format itself.

Yes, it should be possible to basically allow the same customisations,
but have a different "backend" for `format-string' that generates mode
line constructs instead of a propertized string.

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