Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes, and I suggest to change that.  Each field will start at the same
> horizontal position.  A field that doesn't fit in its allotted cell
> will be truncated.

That'd be a massive change in how mode lines are displayed, and how
people can customise them.

>> So I don't see how we could practically define a fixed-width field mode
>> line: The mode line formats are pretty different between modes and users
>> and how you combine different things.
>
> Let's consider the standard mode line before we consider extensions.
> We can talk about extensions later.

I don't consider normal mode line customisations to be extensions.  The
mode line formatting is a basic thing that's gone back to when Emacs was
created, and we can't ditch that.

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