Subject: bug#8355: 24.0.50; Boxes in mode-line and scrolling

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:30:38 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:05:06 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Thanks, this should now be fixed on the master branch.
> 
> Wonderful!  Seems to work perfectly.

The scary thing about this fix is that the problematic code was in a
very low-level function, which is used all over the place, and that
code didn't change since Emacs 21.  So I wonder/dread what other
effects will this change have...