Re: Tick Reduction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:00:36 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That's crazy (forgive my French).  It is much cleaner to produce a
> > Lisp string with the result of %p (or whatever), with the 'display'
> > property on it, and use that in the mode line instead.
> 
> Instead of that hack that copies over the display properties afterwards?
> Sounds good to me.

That hack will need to stay, because we cannot unsupport the old
mode-line code.  It just won't be used with the new mode-line faces.