bug#67161: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add option `dired-filename-display-length'

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes, but who will have the energy and motivation to go over all the
> places that use the display-tables (both in Lisp and in C), and
> convert all of them to use strings with faces instead vectors of
> glyphs?  To say nothing of the related documentation?  And then we
> will probably discover that some subtle aspect of this is the real
> reason why we use vectors of glyphs...

Sounds exciting!


        Stefan