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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Would anybody mind very much if I added a `string-truncate-right' that
>> does all this automatically, and amend `string-truncate-left' in the
>> same way?  I.e., use (if (char-displayable-p ?…) "…" "...").
>
> That could be useful, but it would be better if the name hinted on the
> fact that char-displayable-p is involved.

Uhm...  truncate-string-prettily? 

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