Re: Tick Reduction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:17:12 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> There's one other alternative: extend display_string to accept
> FIELD_WIDTH in pixel units (or add another argument to that effect).
> This could be set by examining the 'display' property before calling
> display_string.  The disadvantage is that only the min-width spec
> could be supported this way for mode-line constructs that are produced
> from C strings.

Are you okay with this idea?  If so, I can work on it.