Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Ah, that.  It's an illusion which we create in this fragment from
> display_mode_element:
>
>                     case MODE_LINE_DISPLAY:
>                       {
>                         int nglyphs_before, nwritten;
>
>                         nglyphs_before = it->glyph_row->used[TEXT_AREA];
>                         nwritten = display_string (spec, string, elt,
>                                                    charpos, 0, it,
>                                                    field, prec, 0,
>                                                    multibyte);
>
>                         /* Assign to the glyphs written above the
>                            string where the `%x' came from, position
>                            of the `%'.  */

Ah, I see.  Then perhaps the solution here is to call handle_stop at a
strategic place in the C string case.  I'll poke at the problem some
more, but probably not this weekend.

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