bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Instead of, or in addition to, a user option, perhaps a new mode line
> construct would be more general.  There is already a way to specify a
> minimum field width, for example, so perhaps it would be possible to
> also specify a maximum default width.

Do you mean on a per-field basis?  Hm...  I'm not sure that's generally
useful -- when chopping down a field, there's often field-specific ways
to shorten things (i.e., just chopping the ends off of things isn't
always the best thing to do).

But in any case, it's orthogonal to whether to compact the white space,
which entails no information loss and can be done generally.  I think.

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