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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> OK, I've now done some more testing -- I removed my call to
>> display_string, and no mode line is displayed at all, which kinda
>> supports my reading of the code?
>
> I don't want to argue with your reading of the code.  I'm saying that
> the natural way of removing extra spaces is to post-process the glyphs
> produced by display_string directly; anything else is IMO inelegant
> and unnatural.

I just don't understand why -- pre-processing the string is more
efficient and...  normal...  than post-processing the glyphs, surely?
Preparing a string and then calling the display functions is what we do
all over the place.

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