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29.0.50; Extra spacing before '@' in emacsclient modeline

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 58183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, miha <at> kamnitnik.top
Subject: bug#58183: 29.0.50; Extra spacing before '@' in emacsclient modeline
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:39:24 +0300

> Cc: 58183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:59:39 +0200
> 
> miha <at> kamnitnik.top writes:
> 
> > Graphical emacsclient frames have modelines that look something like
> >
> > U:    @---
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > U:@----
> 
> It seems to have something to do with the min-width display property.
> When the client element is present, the default format is making the "U:"
> element five chars wide instead of the entire "U:@---".
> 
> To experiment:
> 
> (setq mode-line-format
> '("%e" mode-line-front-space (:propertize ("" mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote) 
>               display (min-width (5.0)))
>  mode-line-frame-identification mode-line-buffer-identification "   " mode-line-position (vc-mode vc-mode) "  " mode-line-modes mode-line-misc-info mode-line-end-spaces))

This doesn't show the extra spaces here.  Strange.

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