Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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 didn't say text properties on the mode line didn't work, I just
> explained why we disregard text properties that are put on C strings.

Right, but I still don't understand how the display (resulting from
those C strings) does have text properties, while we're not heeding the
`display' property.  Is this a bug?

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