Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The value of mode-line-percent-position is '(-3 "%p").  So in the
> second example you propertize the thing which Emacs produces from the
> %p mode-line format.  But %p produces a C string, and C strings cannot
> have text properties.  That's why handle_display_prop isn't called: it
> is never called for C strings we display.

But...  the displayed string does end up with a text property --
help-echo etc.  So text properties work fine, I think?  It's just that
we don't call the `display' handler.

I think.

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