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bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeli
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Andy Moreton |
Subject: |
bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:24:11 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Thu 01 Oct 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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?
Using truncate could lead to confusion with string-trim-{left,right}.
Perhaps string-elide-left etc ?
AndyM